Pacific Coast
Guerrero
Acapulco de Juárez Municipality

Acapulco

Acapulco is the original resort town. It is a historic port city that during the Spanish Empire served as a terminus for trade between Mexico and the Philippines. The trade route between and Acapulco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: City with 659,000 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Acapolco Juárez”, “Acapulco de Juarez”, “Acapulco de Juárez”, and “Acapulco, Acapulco de Juarez”
  • Postal code: 39300

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fortín Álvarez.

Castle
Photo: Mitrush, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a castle.

Acapulco

Latitude
16.8681° or 16° 52′ 5″ north
Longitude
-99.894° or 99° 53′ 39″ west
Population
659,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
ACA
United Nations Location Code
MX ACA
Open location code
7682V494+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269913250
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3533462
Wiki­data ID
Q81398
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Acapulco” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Afrikaans: “Acapulco”
  • Albanian: “Akapulko”
  • Arabic: “أكابولكو”
  • Aragonese: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Aragonese: “Acapulco”
  • Armenian: “Ակապուլկո”
  • Asturian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akapulko de Xuarez”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akapulko”
  • Basque: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Basque: “Acapulco”
  • Bavarian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Bavarian: “Acapulco”
  • Belarusian: “Акапулька-дэ-Хуарэс”
  • Belarusian: “Акапулька”
  • Bengali: “আকাপুল্কো”
  • Breton: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Breton: “Acapulco”
  • Bulgarian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Bulgarian: “Акапулко”
  • Catalan: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Catalan: “Acapulco”
  • Cebuano: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاکاپولکۆ”
  • Chinese: “Acapulco”
  • Chinese: “阿卡普尔科”
  • Chinese: “阿卡普尔科港”
  • Chinese: “阿卡普爾科”
  • Chinese: “阿卡普高”
  • Chinese: “阿卡波西”
  • Croatian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Croatian: “Acapulco”
  • Czech: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Czech: “Acapulco”
  • Danish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Danish: “Acapulco”
  • Dutch: “Acapulco de Juarez”
  • Dutch: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Dutch: “Acapulco”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكابولكو”
  • Esperanto: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Esperanto: “Acapulco”
  • Esperanto: “Akapulko”
  • Estonian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Estonian: “Acapulco”
  • Finnish: “Acapulco de Juarez”
  • Finnish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Finnish: “Acapulco”
  • French: “Acapulco de Juarez”
  • French: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • French: “Acapulco”
  • French: “General Juan N. Alvarez”
  • Galician: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Galician: “Acapulco”
  • Georgian: “აკაპულკო”
  • German: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • German: “Acapulco”
  • German: “Acapúlco”
  • Greek: “Ακαπούλκο”
  • Gujarati: “એકાપુલ્કો”
  • Hebrew: “אקפולקו”
  • Hindi: “अकापुल्को दे जुआरेज”
  • Hungarian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Hungarian: “Acapulco”
  • Icelandic: “Acapulco”
  • Icelandic: “Akapúlkó”
  • Ido: “Acapulco”
  • Iloko: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Iloko: “Acapulco”
  • Indonesian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Indonesian: “Acapulco”
  • Interlingue: “Acapulco”
  • Irish: “Acapulco”
  • Italian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Italian: “Acapulco”
  • Japanese: “アカプーコ”
  • Japanese: “アカプルコ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Acapulco”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕಾಪುಲ್ಕೊ”
  • Kikuyu: “Acapulco”
  • Korean: “아카풀코”
  • Ladino: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Latin: “Acapulcum”
  • Latvian: “Acapulco”
  • Latvian: “Akapulko”
  • Lithuanian: “Acapulco”
  • Lithuanian: “Akapulkas”
  • Lombard: “Acapulco de Juarez”
  • Lombard: “Acapulco”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Acapulco”
  • Macedonian: “Акапулко”
  • Malay: “Acapulco”
  • Malayalam: “Acapulco”
  • Malayalam: “അകാപുൽകോ”
  • Malayalam: “അക്കാപുൽകോ”
  • Maltese: “Acapulco”
  • Marathi: “अकापुल्को”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Acapulco”
  • Mingrelian: “აკაპულკო”
  • Moksha: “Акапулька”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Acapulco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acapulco de Juarez”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acapulco”
  • Norwegian: “Acapulco”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Acapulco”
  • Ossetian: “Акапулько”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਕਾਪੂਲਕੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Acapulco”
  • Persian: “آکاپولکو، گررو”
  • Persian: “آکاپولکو، گوئررو”
  • Persian: “آکاپولکو٬ گوئررو”
  • Persian: “آکاپولکو”
  • Persian: “اکاپولکو٬ گوئررو”
  • Piemontese: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Piemontese: “Acapulco”
  • Polish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Polish: “Acapulco”
  • Portuguese: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Portuguese: “Acapulco”
  • Romanian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Romanian: “Acapulco, Guerrero”
  • Romanian: “Acapulco”
  • Russian: “Акапулько-де-Хуарес”
  • Russian: “Акапулько”
  • Scots: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Scots: “Acapulco”
  • Serbian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Serbian: “Акапулко де Хуарез”
  • Serbian: “Акапулко”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Acapulco”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akapulko”
  • Silesian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Silesian: “Acapulco”
  • Sinhala: “ඇකපල්කෝ”
  • Slovak: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Slovak: “Acapulco”
  • Slovenian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Slovenian: “Acapulco”
  • Spanish: “Acapulco de Juarez”
  • Spanish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Spanish: “Acapulco”
  • Swahili: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Swahili: “Acapulco, Guerrero”
  • Swahili: “Acapulco”
  • Swedish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Swedish: “Acapulco”
  • Tagalog: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Tagalog: “Acapulco”
  • Tamil: “அகபல்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Акапулько”
  • Telugu: “అకాపుల్కో”
  • Thai: “Acapulco”
  • Thai: “อากาปุลโก”
  • Tumbuka: “Acapulco”
  • Turkish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Turkish: “Acapulco”
  • Ukrainian: “Акапулько-де-Хуарес”
  • Ukrainian: “Акапулько”
  • Urdu: “اکاپولکو”
  • Uzbek: “Acapulco”
  • Venetian: “Acapulco”
  • Veps: “Akapul’ko”
  • Vietnamese: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Vietnamese: “Acapulco”
  • Vlax Romani: “Acapulco”
  • Volapük: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Volapük: “Acapulco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Acapulco”
  • Welsh: “Acapulco de Juárez”
  • Welsh: “Acapulco”
  • Western Mari: “Акапулько”
  • Western Panjabi: “آکاپولکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿卡普尔科”
  • Yakut: “Акапулько”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿卡波可”
  • Zeeuws: “Acapulco”
  • “Acapûlc”
  • “Akapolko”
  • “Akapolko Altepetl”
  • “Akapolko Juárez”

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