Lerma River

The Lerma River is 's seventh longest river. It is a 750 km-long river in west-central Mexico that begins in at an altitude over 3,000 metres above sea level, and ends where it empties into , Mexico's largest lake, near Guadalajara, .
  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,548 metres (5,079 feet)
  • Description: river in Mexico
  • Also known as
    “Lerma”
    “Río de Lerma”

Lerma River

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Latitude
20.20671° or 20° 12′ 24″ north
Longitude
-102.76603° or 102° 45′ 58″ west
Open location code
75GV664M+MH
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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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”

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