El Chanal
El Chanal is a village in Colima, Colima and has about 820 residents. El Chanal is situated nearby to the neighborhood Real Santa Fe, as well as near Real de Caná.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Chanal and La Campana.
El Chanal
Archaeological site
El Chanal is an archaeological site located at El Chanal town, 4 kilometres north of the city of Colima, Mexico. Based on its extension, over 50 hectares, it is probable that it was the largest settlement of the state of Colima; it developed on both banks of the “Río Verde” or Río Colima.
La Campana
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Campana 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. La Campana is situated 3½ km southwest of El Chanal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Comala.
Comala
Photo: Pabloangulo84, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Comala is a town of 10,000 people in the southwestern state of Colima, Mexico. It is nicknamed the "White Village of America" as the façades of the buildings in town have all been painted white since the 1960s.
El Chanal
- Type: Village with 820 residents
- Description: town in Colima Municipality, State of Colima, Mexico
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Colima, Colima, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.29355° or 19° 17′ 37″ northLongitude
-103.7067° or 103° 42′ 24″ westPopulation
820Elevation
659 metres (2,162 feet)Open location code
75FR77VV+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 11105560900OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4027810Wikidata ID
Q20277868
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tatar—“El Chanal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “El Chanal”
- Chechen: “Эль Чанал”
- Dutch: “El Chanal”
- Serbian: “Ел Чанал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Chanal, Colima”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Chanal”
- Spanish: “El Chanal”
- Swedish: “El Chanal”
- Tatar: “Эль Чанал (Колима)”
- Tatar: “Эль Чанал”
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