Lerma River
The Lerma River is Mexico's second longest river. It is a 750 km-long river in west-central Mexico that begins in Mexican Plateau at an altitude over 3,000 metres above sea level, and ends where it empties into Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest lake, near Guadalajara, Jalisco.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ulises Mexicano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Mexico
- Also known as: “Lerma” and “Río de Lerma”
Lerma River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Michoacan, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Lerma River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Lerma River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Lerma”
- Bulgarian: “Лерма (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Лерма”
- Catalan: “Riu Lerma Santiago”
- Catalan: “Riu Lerma”
- Cebuano: “Río Lerma”
- Chinese: “萊爾馬河”
- Chuvash: “Лерма”
- Czech: “Lerma”
- Czech: “Río Lerma Santiago”
- Dutch: “Lerma”
- Dutch: “Rio Lerma”
- Dutch: “Río Lerma”
- Esperanto: “Lerma-Rivero”
- Esperanto: “Lermao”
- Esperanto: “Río Lerma”
- Estonian: “Lerma jõgi”
- French: “Rio Lerma”
- French: “río Lerma”
- French: “Río Lerma”
- German: “Lerma”
- German: “Rio Grande de Santiago”
- German: “Río Grande de Santiago”
- German: “Rio Lerma”
- German: “Río Lerma”
- Irish: “Abhainn Lerma”
- Italian: “Lerma”
- Japanese: “レルマ川”
- Lithuanian: “Lerma”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Río Lerma”
- Norwegian: “Lerma”
- Polish: “Lerma”
- Portuguese: “Rio Lerma”
- Russian: “Лерма”
- Spanish: “Lerma”
- Spanish: “Rio Lerma”
- Spanish: “Río Lerma”
- Welsh: “Afon Lerma”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Lerma River”. Photo: Ulises Mexicano, CC BY-SA 4.0.