Villa de Álvarez

Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez is a city in the state of . It is the municipal seat of Villa de Álvarez municipality. The city is adjacent to the northwest side of the state capital city of Colima and the two can be considered as "twin cities", with Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez having a 2005 census population of 97,701 and Colima having a population of 123,597.
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  • Type: Locality with 118,000 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Villa de Álvarez, State of Colima, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez” and “Villa de Alvarez”

Places of Interest

Highlights include La Campana and Cathedral Basilica of Colima.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site included in the Mexican archaeological heritage list since 1917. Located in the vicinity of the city of Colima. This site was the largest prehispanic population center in western Mexico.

Church
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The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe Also Colima Cathedral is the name that receives the most important Catholic church of the city of Colima, in that was designated 12 of October 1998 by Pope John Paul II, like Basilica Minor, since it is the first consecrated to the Virgin of Guadalupe in Latin America.

University
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colima and Comala.

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is the capital of state in . This city is not very touristy but richly rewards the intrepid traveler who comes looking to experience a small state capitol with colonial architecture, an excellent state museum and a portrait gallery, fun…

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is a town of 10,000 people in the southwestern state of , . It is nicknamed the "White Village of America" as the façades of the buildings in town have all been painted white since the 1960s.

Villa de Álvarez

Latitude
19.2672° or 19° 16′ 2″ north
Longitude
-103.7378° or 103° 44′ 16″ west
Population
118,000
Elevation
531 metres (1,742 feet)
Open location code
75FR7786+VV
Geo­Names ID
3980194
Wiki­data ID
Q139491734
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Villa de Álvarez” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “সিউদাদ দে বিইয়া দে আলবারেস”
  • Catalan: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Cebuano: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیلا دی ئەلڤارێز”
  • Chechen: “Сиудад де Вилья де Алварез (Вилья де Алварез)”
  • Chechen: “Сиудад де Вилья де Алварез”
  • Chinese: “阿尔瓦雷斯镇”
  • Chinese: “阿爾瓦雷斯鎮”
  • Dutch: “Ciudad de Villa de Alvarez”
  • Dutch: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez”
  • Dutch: “Villa de Alvarez”
  • Dutch: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Esperanto: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • French: “villa de Álvarez”
  • French: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • German: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Indonesian: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Italian: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Norwegian: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Persian: “ویلا د الوارز”
  • Polish: “Villa de Alvarez”
  • Polish: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Russian: “Вилья-де-Альварес”
  • Russian: “Сьюдад-де-Вилья-де-Альварес”
  • Serbian: “Сиудад де Виља де Алварез”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez, Villa de Álvarez”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez”
  • Spanish: “Villa de Alvarez”
  • Spanish: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Swedish: “Ciudad de Villa de Álvarez”
  • Tatar: “Вилья-де-Альварес”
  • Tatar: “Сиудад де Вилья де Алварез (Вилья де Алварез)”
  • Tatar: “Сиудад де Вилья де Алварез”
  • Turkish: “Villa de Álvarez”
  • Urdu: “ویا دے الواریز، کولیما”
  • Urdu: “ویا دے الواریز”
  • Vietnamese: “Villa de Alvarez”

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Localities in the Area

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