Chila de la Sal

Chila de la Sal is a municipality in the Mexican state of . The hieroglyph of the population comes from the Nahuatl words "cili", caracolito, and "la", particle abundance; which means "Abundance of snails" referring to the fact that in this place there are plenty of snails of which some are petrified from the Cretaceous, with an antiquity of 3,000,000 years.

Chila de la Sal

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Latitude
18.1113° or 18° 6′ 41″ north
Longitude
-98.4636° or 98° 27′ 49″ west
Open location code
76C34G6P+GH
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