La Misión Municipality
La Misión is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 179.9 km2. The first Spanish colonisers named the town "Cibola", and it was later named "The Mission" by the Franciscan friars that arrived there in later years.- Type: municipality of Mexico
- Description: municipality in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico
- Also known as: “conceyu de La Misión”, “La Mision”, “La Misión (conceyu de Méxicu)”, “La Misión (Hidalgo, Méxicu)”, “La Mision Municipality”, “La Misión, Hidalgo”, and “Municipio de La Mision”
La Misión Municipality
- Location: Hidalgo, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
21.0698° or 21° 4′ 11″ north
Longitude
-99.0715° or 99° 4′ 17″ west
Elevation
1,028 metres (3,373 feet)
Open location code
76H23W9H+WC
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“La Misión Municipality” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “La Misión”
- Basque: “La Misión (udalerria)”
- Basque: “La Misión”
- Catalan: “La Misión”
- Cebuano: “La Misión”
- Chechen: “Ла Мисион”
- Dutch: “La Misión”
- Esperanto: “La Misión”
- French: “La Misión”
- Friulian: “La Misión”
- Georgian: “ლა-მისიონი (იდალგო)”
- Georgian: “ლა-მისიონი”
- German: “Municipio La Misión”
- Italian: “La Misión”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Misión”
- Scots: “La Misión, Hidalgo”
- Scots: “La Misión”
- Serbian: “Општина Ла Мисион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština La Misión, Hidalgo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština La Misión”
- Spanish: “Municipio de La Misión”
- Swedish: “La Misión kommun”
- Swedish: “La Misión”
- Tatar: “Ла Мисион муниципалитеты”
- Turkish: “La Misión, Hidalgo”
- Urdu: “لا میسیون، ہیڈالگو”
- Venetian: “La Misión”
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