Chapultepec Castle

Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper".
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: palace in Mexico
  • Also known as: Palacio de Chapultepec
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chapultepec and National Museum of Anthropology.

is a district of . "Chapultepec" means "Grasshopper Hill" in Nahuatl, the language of the "Aztecs". The hill and surrounding district has much significance in Mexican history.

Museum
The is a national museum of . It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in , the museum contains… is situated 1 km northwest of Chapultepec Castle.

is a Mexican cypress tree in 's park , planted by Nezahualcoyotl c. 1460. After living for approximately 500 years, the tree died in 1969, and its trunk stands today at around 50 feet tall. is situated 150 metres southeast of Chapultepec Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Condesa and San Miguel Chapultepec.

Neighborhood
or La is an area in the borough of , south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square.

Quarter
is a colonia or neighborhood in Delegación Miguel Hidalgo in . Its borders are: The colonia's streets carry the names of generals and governors of Mexico.

Neighborhood
Pequeño Seúl is a Koreatown in Mexico City. Most of the city's Korean population lives in and around the Zona Rosa. According to the newspaper Reforma, there are at least 5,000 Koreans living in Zona Rosa and about 6,000 total in Colonia Juárez, the larger officially recognized neighborhood of which the Zona Rosa is a part of.

Chapultepec Castle

Latitude
19.42028° or 19° 25′ 13″ north
Longitude
-99.18178° or 99° 10′ 54″ west
Elevation
2,282 metres (7,487 feet)
Open location code
76F2CRC9+47
Geo­Names ID
11560869
Wiki­data ID
Q1072510
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Chapultepec Castle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: قلعة تشابولتيبيك
  • Armenian: Չապուլտեպեկ ամրոց
  • Asturian: Castiellu de Chapultepec
  • Basque: Chapultepec gaztelua
  • Bulgarian: Чапултепекски замък
  • Catalan: castell de Chapultepec
  • Catalan: Castell de Chapultepec
  • Catalan: Chapultepec
  • Chinese: 查普尔特佩克城堡
  • Chinese: 查普爾特佩克城堡
  • Dutch: Chapultepec (paleis)
  • Dutch: Chapultepec
  • Dutch: Paleis van Chapultepec
  • Esperanto: Kastelo de Ĉapultepeko
  • French: Chateau de Chapultepec
  • French: château de Chapultepec
  • French: Château de Chapultepec
  • French: Château de Miravalle
  • German: Castillo de Chapultepec
  • German: Schloss Chapultepec
  • Greek: Κάστρο Τσαπουλτεπέκ
  • Italian: Castello di Chapultepec
  • Japanese: チャプルテペク城
  • Japanese: チャプルテペック城
  • Korean: 차풀테펙 성
  • Korean: 차풀테펙성
  • Malay: Istana Chapultepec
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Castillo de Chapultepec
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Chapultepec-slottet
  • Norwegian: Chapultepec-slottet
  • Persian: قلعه چپولتپک
  • Portuguese: Castelo de Chapultepec
  • Portuguese: Castillo de chapultepec
  • Portuguese: Museu nacional de história
  • Russian: Замок Чапультепек
  • Russian: Чапультепекский дворец
  • Slovenian: Grad Chapultepec
  • Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec
  • Spanish: Museo Nacional de Historia
  • Spanish: Palacio de Chapultepec
  • Swedish: Castillo de Chapultepec
  • Turkish: Chapultepec Kalesi

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