Temascal
Temascal is a town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca which is the seat of the municipality of San Miguel Soyaltepec. It is part of the Tuxtepec District of the Papaloapan Region.- Type: Town with 6,570 residents
- Description: municipal seat of San Miguel Soyaltepec, State of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Also known as: “Nuevo Soyaltepec”, “Temascal, Oaxaca”, and “Temazcal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Miguel Alemán Dam.
Miguel Alemán Dam
Dam
Photo: Azcarlos2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Miguel Alemán Dam is on the Tonto River in the Papaloapan Region of Oaxaca state in southern Mexico, just upstream from the town of Temascal, Oaxaca, forming the Miguel Alemán Lake with an area of 47,800 hectares.
Temascal
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: San Miguel Soyaltepec, Oaxaca, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
18.24197° or 18° 14′ 31″ northLongitude
-96.40232° or 96° 24′ 8″ westPopulation
6,570Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)Open location code
76C56HRX+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
node 458606131OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3801261Wikidata ID
Q7697989
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Temascal” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Temascaltepec (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Temascaltepec”
- Chechen: “Темаскал (Сан Мигел Соялтепек)”
- Chechen: “Темаскал”
- Georgian: “სან-მიგელ-სოიალტეპეკი”
- Greek: “Δήμος Σαν Μιγκέλ Σοιαλτεπέκ”
- Greek: “Σαν Μιγκέλ Σοιαλτεπέκ”
- Serbian: “Темаскал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Temascaltepec”
- Spanish: “Nuevo Soyaltepec”
- Spanish: “Temascal”
- Spanish: “Temazcal”
- Swedish: “Temascal”
- Turkish: “Temascal”
- Vietnamese: “San Miguel Soyaltepec”
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