Balancán
Balancán is a small city of about 14,000 people in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the Yucatán Peninsula. The town saw upheaval and conflict through the colonial era with the local Maya community resisting Spanish invaders.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cvmontuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Cvmontuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 13,900 residents
- Description: town of Tabasco State, Mexico
- Also known as: “Balancan” and “Balancán de Domínguez”
Balancán
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Balancán Municipality, Tabasco, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
17.8064° or 17° 48′ 23″ northLongitude
-91.5375° or 91° 32′ 15″ westPopulation
13,900Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX BALOpen location code
769CRF47+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 331843105OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Balancán” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- Cebuano: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- Dutch: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- German: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- Polish: “Balancán”
- Portuguese: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- Russian: “Баланкан-де-Домингес”
- Russian: “Баланкан”
- Serbian: “Баланкан (Баланкан, Табаско)”
- Serbian: “Баланкан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balancán de Domínguez, Tabasco”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- Spanish: “Balancan de Dominguez”
- Spanish: “Balancán de Domínguez”
- Spanish: “Balancan”
- Spanish: “Balancán”
- Swedish: “Balancán de Domínguez”
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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 “Balancán”. Photo: Cvmontuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.