Mexico
Baja California Sur
La Paz Municipality

La Paz

La Paz is a city in , . Often overlooked by travelers drawn to the more flashy nearby Los Cabos resorts, La Paz has a wonderful waterfront and world class beaches.
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  • Type: City with 250,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Baja California Sur, México
  • Also known as: “La Paz, Baja California Sur” and “Paz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo de Arte de Baja California Sur and Our Lady of Peace Cathedral.

Museum
Photo: Pequeño mar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Church
Photo: Daniel Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The or La Paz Cathedral is a Catholic church in the center of the city of La Paz, , western that is the seat of the Diocese of La Paz.

La Paz

Latitude
24.162° or 24° 9′ 43″ north
Longitude
-110.3159° or 110° 18′ 57″ west
Population
250,000
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
IATA airport code
LAP
Open location code
75PF5M6M+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 266478791
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4000900
Wiki­data ID
Q214215
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“La Paz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لا باز”
  • Aragonese: “La Paz (Baixa California Sud)”
  • Aragonese: “La Paz”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պաս (Մեքսիկա)”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պաս”
  • Basque: “La Paz”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Belarusian: “Ля Пас”
  • Belarusian: “Ля-Пас”
  • Bengali: “লা পাস”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Пас”
  • Catalan: “La Paz”
  • Cebuano: “La Paz”
  • Central Kurdish: “لا پاز، مەکسیک”
  • Chechen: “Ла Паз (Мехико)”
  • Chechen: “Ла Паз”
  • Chinese: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Chinese: “拉巴斯”
  • Czech: “La Paz”
  • Danish: “La Paz”
  • Dutch: “La Paz, La Paz”
  • Dutch: “La Paz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لا باز”
  • Esperanto: “La Paz”
  • Estonian: “La Paz”
  • Finnish: “La Paz (Baja California Sur)”
  • Finnish: “La Paz”
  • French: “La Paz, Basse-Californie du Sud”
  • French: “La Paz”
  • Galician: “La Paz, Baixa California Sur”
  • Galician: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Georgian: “ლა-პასი”
  • German: “La Paz”
  • Greek: “Λα Παζ”
  • Greek: “Λα Πας”
  • Gujarati: “લા પાઝ”
  • Hebrew: “לה פאס”
  • Hindi: “ला पेज़”
  • Hungarian: “La Paz”
  • Iloko: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Iloko: “La Paz”
  • Indonesian: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Indonesian: “La Paz, Baja California”
  • Interlingua: “La Paz”
  • Irish: “La Paz”
  • Italian: “La Paz, Bassa California del Sud”
  • Italian: “La Paz”
  • Japanese: “ラパス ・メキシコ”
  • Japanese: “ラパス (バハ・カリフォルニア・スル州)”
  • Japanese: “ラパス”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾ ಪಾಜ್”
  • Korean: “라파스”
  • Ladino: “La Paz”
  • Latvian: “Lapasa”
  • Lithuanian: “La Pasas”
  • Lombard: “La Paz, Bassa California del Süd”
  • Lombard: “La Paz”
  • Malay: “La Paz”
  • Marathi: “ला पाझ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Mingrelian: “ლა-პასი (მექსიკა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ლა-პასი”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Paz (Baja California Sur)”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Paz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Paz”
  • Norwegian: “La Paz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Paz”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Persian: “لا پاز٬ باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Persian: “لا پاس٬ باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Persian: “لاپاز، باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Polish: “La Paz”
  • Portuguese: “La Paz”
  • Quechua: “La Paz”
  • Romanian: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Romanian: “La Paz”
  • Russian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Scots: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Serbian: “Ла Паз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Paz, La Paz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština La Paz”
  • Sinhala: “ලා පාස්”
  • Slovak: “La Paz”
  • Somali: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Spanish: “La Paz”
  • Swahili: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Swedish: “La Paz (delstatshuvudstad i Mexiko, Baja California Sur, La Paz)”
  • Swedish: “La Paz”
  • Tagalog: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Tamil: “ல பாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Пас”
  • Telugu: “లా పాజ్”
  • Thai: “ลาปาซ”
  • Turkish: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Turkish: “La Paz”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Пас”
  • Urdu: “لا پاز، باجا کیلیفورنیا سر”
  • Urdu: “لا پاز، باخا کیلیفورنیا سر”
  • Venetian: “La Paz”
  • Vietnamese: “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • Volapük: “La Paz (Mäxikän)”
  • Volapük: “La Paz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “La Paz, Baja California Sur”
  • “La Paz”
  • “La Paz, Tlani California Huitztlāmpa”

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