Puerto Palomas
Puerto Palomas de Villa, also known simply as Palomas or as General Rodrigo M. Quevedo, is a small town of 4,688 people in the municipality of Ascensión, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It borders the village of Columbus, New Mexico, in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,870 residents
- Description: town in Ascención municipality, State of Chihuahua, Mexico
- Also known as: “Puerto Palomas de Villa” and “Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Columbus.
Columbus
Town
Photo: Rodan44, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Columbus is an incorporated village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about 3 miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of a 1916 attack by Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa that caused the United States to send 10,000 troops there in the Mexican Expedition. Columbus is situated 6 km north of Puerto Palomas.
Puerto Palomas
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Ascensión Municipality, Chihuahua, Northern Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
31.77674° or 31° 46′ 36″ northLongitude
-107.63471° or 107° 38′ 5″ westPopulation
4,870Elevation
1,221 metres (4,006 feet)Open location code
853JQ9G8+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2968516383OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3991350Wikidata ID
Q4384919
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Puerto Palomas” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Puerto Palomas”
- Dutch: “Puerto Palomas”
- Russian: “Пуэрто-Паломас”
- Serbian: “Пуерто Паломас де Виља”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Puerto Palomas”
- Spanish: “Puerto Palomas”
- Swedish: “Puerto Palomas”
- “Puerto Palomas”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Puerto Palomas”. Photo: ricardohc72, CC BY 3.0.