Acapulco
Acapulco is the original Mexican 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 Manila and Acapulco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Type: City with 659,000 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Mexico
- Also known as: “Acapolco Juárez”, “Acapúlco”, “Acapulco de Juarez”, “Acapulco de Juárez”, “Acapulco, Acapulco de Juarez”, “Akapolko Altepetl”, “Akapolko Juárez”, “Akapulko de Xuarez”, “General Juan N. Alvarez”, “Акапулко де Хуарез”, “Акапулька-дэ-Хуарэс”, “Акапулько-де-Хуарес”, “اکاپولکو٬ گوئررو”, “അകാപുൽകോ”, “アカプーコ”, “阿卡普尔科港”, and “阿卡波西”
- Postal code: 39300
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fortín Álvarez.
Acapulco
- Categories: big city, port city, seaside resort, locality of Mexico, and locality
- Location: Acapulco de Juárez Municipality, Guerrero, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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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
UN/LOCODE
MX ACA
Open location code
7682V494+69
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Acapulco” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Acapulco”
- Albanian: “Akapulko”
- Arabic: “أكابولكو”
- Aragonese: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Armenian: “Ակապուլկո”
- Asturian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Azerbaijani: “Akapulko”
- Basque: “Acapulco”
- Bavarian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Belarusian: “Акапулька”
- Bengali: “আকাপুল্কো”
- Breton: “Acapulco”
- Bulgarian: “Акапулко”
- Catalan: “Acapulco”
- Cebuano: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاکاپولکۆ”
- Chinese: “阿卡普尔科”
- Chinese: “阿卡普爾科”
- Croatian: “Acapulco”
- Czech: “Acapulco”
- Danish: “Acapulco”
- Dutch: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Dutch: “Acapulco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكابولكو”
- Emilian: “Acapûlc”
- Esperanto: “Akapulko”
- Estonian: “Acapulco”
- Finnish: “Acapulco”
- French: “Acapulco”
- Galician: “Acapulco”
- Georgian: “აკაპულკო”
- German: “Acapulco”
- Greek: “Ακαπούλκο”
- Gujarati: “એકાપુલ્કો”
- Hebrew: “אקפולקו”
- Hindi: “आकापुल्को दे ख़्वारेस”
- Hungarian: “Acapulco”
- Icelandic: “Akapúlkó”
- Ido: “Acapulco”
- Iloko: “Acapulco”
- Indonesian: “Acapulco”
- Interlingue: “Acapulco”
- Irish: “Acapulco”
- Italian: “Acapulco”
- Japanese: “アカプルコ”
- Kalaallisut: “Acapulco”
- Kannada: “ಅಕಾಪುಲ್ಕೊ”
- Kikuyu: “Acapulco”
- Korean: “아카풀코”
- Ladino: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Latin: “Acapulcum”
- Latvian: “Akapulko”
- Lithuanian: “Akapulkas”
- Lombard: “Acapulco”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Macedonian: “Акапулко”
- Malay: “Acapulco”
- Malayalam: “അക്കാപുൽകോ”
- Maltese: “Acapulco”
- Marathi: “अकापुल्को”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Acapulco”
- Mingrelian: “აკაპულკო”
- Moksha: “Акапулька”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Acapulco”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Acapulco”
- Norwegian: “Acapulco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Acapulco”
- Ossetian: “Акапулько”
- Panjabi: “ਆਕਾਪੂਲਕੋ”
- Papiamento: “Acapulco”
- Persian: “آکاپولکو، گررو”
- Persian: “آکاپولکو، گوئررو”
- Persian: “آکاپولکو٬ گوئررو”
- Persian: “آکاپولکو”
- Piemontese: “Acapulco”
- Polish: “Acapulco”
- Portuguese: “Acapulco”
- Romanian: “Acapulco, Guerrero”
- Romanian: “Acapulco”
- Russian: “Акапулько”
- Scots: “Acapulco”
- Serbian: “Акапулко”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Acapulco”
- Silesian: “Acapulco”
- Sinhala: “ඇකපල්කෝ”
- Slovak: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Slovenian: “Acapulco”
- Spanish: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Spanish: “Acapulco”
- Swahili: “Acapulco, Guerrero”
- Swahili: “Acapulco”
- Swedish: “Acapulco”
- Tagalog: “Acapulco”
- Tamil: “அகபல்கோ”
- Tatar: “Акапулько”
- Telugu: “అకాపుల్కో”
- Thai: “อากาปุลโก”
- Tumbuka: “Acapulco”
- Turkish: “Acapulco”
- Ukrainian: “Акапулько”
- Urdu: “اکاپولکو”
- Uzbek: “Acapulco”
- Venetian: “Acapulco”
- Veps: “Akapul’ko”
- Vietnamese: “Acapulco de Juárez”
- Vietnamese: “Acapulco”
- Vlax Romani: “Acapulco”
- Volapük: “Acapulco”
- Waray (Philippines): “Acapulco”
- Welsh: “Acapulco”
- Western Mari: “Акапулько”
- Western Panjabi: “آکاپولکو”
- Wu Chinese: “阿卡普尔科”
- Yakut: “Акапулько”
- Yue Chinese: “阿卡普高”
- Yue Chinese: “阿卡波可”
- Zeeuws: “Acapulco”
- “Akapolko”
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Places to explore: Progreso and Real de Acapulco.
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