Mapastepec Municipality
Mapastepec is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Its name derives from the place name mapachtepec, "Hill of the Raccoon", a compound of the Nahuatl words mapachi and tepetl.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Mexico with 46,100 residents
- Description: municipality in the State of Chiapas, Mexico
- Also known as: “Mapastepec”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mapastepec.
Mapastepec
Town
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Mapastepec is a town, which is situated 6 km east of Mapastepec Municipality.
Mapastepec Municipality
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Mapastepec Municipality” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “conceyu de Mapastepec”
- Asturian: “Mapastepec (Chiapas, Méxicu)”
- Asturian: “Mapastepec (conceyu de Méxicu)”
- Asturian: “Mapastepec”
- Basque: “Mapastepec”
- Catalan: “Mapastepec”
- Cebuano: “Mapastepec (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Mapastepec”
- Dutch: “Mapastepec”
- Dutch: “Opština Mapastepec, Chiapas”
- Esperanto: “Mapastepec (komunumo)”
- Esperanto: “Mapastepec”
- French: “Mapastepec”
- Georgian: “მაპასტეპეკი”
- German: “Mapastepec”
- German: “Municipio Mapastepec”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mapastepec”
- Portuguese: “Mapastepec”
- Russian: “Мапастепек”
- Serbian: “Општина Мапастепек”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mapastepec”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Mapastepec, Chiapas”
- Spanish: “Mapastepec”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Mapastepec”
- Swedish: “Mapastepec (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Mapastepec”
- Turkish: “Mapastepec”
- Vietnamese: “Mapastepec”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mapastepec and Valdivia.
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