Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes is a state in the Bajío region of Mexico. The state has several attractions to visit such as the capital city's colonial architecture, and the San Marcos Fair, and offers activities such as hiking, sport fishing and cycling in the Sierra Fría nature reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Aguascalientes and Calvillo.
Aguascalientes
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Aguascalientes is a city of 950,000 people in the Bajío region of Mexico. Aguascalientes means hot water in Spanish; the name comes from the abundance of hot springs in the area.
Calvillo
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Calvillo is a small town in Aguascalientes, Mexico. It is designated as one of Mexico's Pueblos Magicos.
Asientos
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Asientos is a colonial mining town in the northeastern part of the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The town is also known as Real de Asientos, or more formally, Real de Asientos de Nuestra Señora de Belén de los Asientos de Ibarra.
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Pabellón de Hidalgo
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Pabellón de Hidalgo is a small town of about 4600 people in the Bajio region of Aguascalientes. The town's name hints at its historical role in the Mexican War of Independence from Spain. The town is one of Mexico's designated Pueblos Mágicos.
Aguascalientes
- Type: State with 1,430,000 residents
- Description: Mexican state
- Also known as: “Ags.”, “Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes”, “State of Aguascalientes”, and “阿瓜斯卡連特斯”
- Neighbors: Jalisco and Zacatecas
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Bajío, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
21.9943° or 21° 59′ 39″ northLongitude of center
-102.3727° or 102° 22′ 22″ westPopulation
1,430,000Elevation
1,926 metres (6,319 feet)Abbreviation
“AGU”Abbreviation
“Ags”OpenStreetMap ID
node 305626905OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Aguascalientes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ولاية أغواسكالينتس”
- Arabic: “ولاية نفذ”
- Arabic: “ولايه نفذ”
- Aragonese: “Aguascalientes”
- Armenian: “Ագուասկալիենտես”
- Armenian: “Ագուասկալյենտես”
- Asturian: “Aguascalientes”
- Aymara: “Aguascalientes Istadu”
- Balinese: “Aguascalientes”
- Basque: “Aguascalientes”
- Belarusian: “Агуаскальентэс”
- Belarusian: “Штат Агуаскальентэс”
- Bengali: “আগুয়াসকালিয়েন্তেস”
- Bosnian: “Aguascalientes”
- Breton: “Aguascalientes”
- Breton: “Stad Aguascalientes”
- Bulgarian: “Агуаскалиентес”
- Catalan: “Estat d’Aguascalientes”
- Catalan: “Estat de Aguascalientes”
- Cebuano: “Estado de Aguascalientes”
- Chechen: “Агуаскальентес (штат)”
- Chechen: “Агуаскальентес”
- Cheyenne: “Aguascalientes”
- Chinese: “Aguascalientes Chiu”
- Chinese: “阿瓜斯卡连特斯州”
- Chinese: “阿瓜斯卡連特斯州”
- Cornish: “Aguascalientes”
- Croatian: “Aguascalientes”
- Czech: “Aguascalientes”
- Danish: “Aguascalientes”
- Dutch: “Aguascalientes”
- Esperanto: “Aguascalientes”
- Esperanto: “Aguaskalientes”
- Esperanto: “Agvaskaljento”
- Estonian: “Aguascalientese osariik”
- Finnish: “Aguascalientes”
- French: “Aguascalientes”
- French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes”
- French: “État d’Aguascalientes”
- French: “MX-AGU”
- Galician: “Estado de Aguascalientes”
- Georgian: “აგუასკალიენტესის შტატი”
- German: “Aguascalientes”
- German: “MX-AGU”
- Greek: “Αγουασκαλιέντες”
- Guarani: “Aguascalientes”
- Gujarati: “આગવાસ્કલેંટેસ”
- Hebrew: “אגואסקליינטס”
- Hindi: “अगुआसकैलिएंटेस”
- Hungarian: “Aguascalientes”
- Icelandic: “Aguascalientes”
- Ido: “Aguascalientes”
- Iloko: “Aguascalientes”
- Indonesian: “Aguascalientes”
- Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Aguascalientes”
- Interlingua: “Aguascalientes”
- Irish: “Aguascalientes”
- Italian: “Aguascalientes”
- Japanese: “アグアスカリエンテス州”
- Kannada: “ಅಗುಸ್ಕಲೆಂಟಿಸ್”
- Korean: “아과스칼리엔테스주”
- Kurdish: “Aguascalientes”
- Ladino: “Aguascalientes”
- Ladino: “Aguaskalientes”
- Latin: “Aguas Calientes”
- Latin: “Aguascalientes”
- Latin: “Aquae Caldae”
- Latin: “Aquae Calidae”
- Latvian: “Agvaskaljentesa”
- Lithuanian: “Aguaskaljentesas”
- Lithuanian: “Aguaskaljenteso valstija”
- Lithuanian: “Agvaskaljentesas”
- Macedonian: “Агваскалиентес”
- Malay: “Aguascalientes”
- Marathi: “अग्वासकालियंतेस”
- Marathi: “अग्वासकाल्येंतेस”
- Mazanderani: “آگوئاسکالینتس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aguascalientes Chiu”
- Mingrelian: “აგუასკალიენტესიშ შტატი”
- Northern Frisian: “Aguascalientes (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Aguascalientes”
- Northern Luri: “آگوئاسکالینتس”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aguascalientes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Aguascalientes”
- Norwegian: “Aguascalientes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aguascalientes”
- Ossetian: “Агуаскальентес (штат)”
- Ossetian: “Агуаскальентес”
- Pampanga: “Aguascalientes”
- Panjabi: “ਆਗਵਾਸਕਾਲੀਐਂਤੇਸ”
- Persian: “آگوئاسکالینتس”
- Persian: “اگوئاسکالینتس”
- Piemontese: “Aguascalientes”
- Polish: “Aguascalientes”
- Polish: “Estado de Aguascalientes”
- Portuguese: “Aguascalientes”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Aguascalientes”
- Quechua: “Aguascalientes suyu”
- Romanian: “Aguascalientes”
- Romansh: “Aguascalientes”
- Russian: “Агуаскальентес”
- Scots: “Aguascalientes”
- Serbian: “Estado de Aguascalientes”
- Serbian: “Агваскалијентес”
- Serbian: “Држава Агваскалијентес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aguascalientes”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Agvaskalijentes”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Država Aguascalientes”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Država Agvaskalijentes”
- Sinhala: “අගුආස්කලිඑන්ටෙස්”
- Sinhala: “අගුස්කාලියෙන්ටෙස් ප්රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
- Slovak: “Aguascalientes”
- Spanish: “Aguascalentense”
- Spanish: “Aguascalientes”
- Spanish: “Aquicalidense”
- Spanish: “Estado de Aguascalientes”
- Spanish: “Hidrocalido”
- Spanish: “Hidrocálido”
- Spanish: “Hidrotermopolitano”
- Swahili: “Aguascalientes”
- Swedish: “Aguascalientes”
- Tagalog: “Aguascalientes”
- Tajik: “Иёлати Агуаскалентес”
- Tamil: “அகுற்ஸ்கேலின்ட்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Агваскальентес (штат)”
- Tatar: “Агваскальентес”
- Telugu: “అగువాస్కాలియెంటెస్”
- Thai: “รัฐอากวสกาเลียนเตส”
- Thai: “รัฐอากวัสกาเลียนเตส”
- Tumbuka: “Aguascalientes,Mexico”
- Turkish: “Aguascalientes”
- Ukrainian: “Агуаскальєнтес”
- Ukrainian: “Аґуаскальєнтес”
- Urdu: “آگوسکالینٹس”
- Uzbek: “Aguaskalentes”
- Venetian: “Aguascalientes (stato)”
- Venetian: “Aguascalientes”
- Vietnamese: “Aguascalientes”
- Volapük: “Aguascalientes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aguascalientes”
- Welsh: “Aguascalientes”
- Western Frisian: “Aguascalientes”
- Western Mari: “Агуаскальентес”
- Western Panjabi: “اکواسکالینٹس”
- Wu Chinese: “阿瓜斯卡连特斯州”
- Yue Chinese: “阿瓜斯卡連特斯州”
- “Aguascalientes”
- “Atotonilco”
- “Ātotonilco”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aguascalientes”. Photo: Yola Robles E., CC BY-SA 3.0.