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Chiapas

Cañón del Sumidero

Cañón del Sumidero is in , just north of Tuxtla Gutierrez. The area is one of the most scenic of Mexico national parks, but is generally not crowded because it is off the usual tourist path.
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  • Type: Nature reserve with an elevation of 526 metres
  • Description: Canyon of the Grijalva River in Chiapas, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Canon El Sumidero”, “Parque Nacional Cañón del Sumidero”, and “Sumidero Canyon”
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cañón del Sumidero

Latitude
16.8385° or 16° 50′ 19″ north
Longitude
-93.095° or 93° 5′ 42″ west
Elevation
526 metres (1,726 feet)
Operator
CONANP Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas
Open location code
7688RWQ4+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 886539081
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Geo­Names ID
9626733
Wiki­data ID
Q775138
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Cañón del Sumidero” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أخدود سومديرو”
  • Arabic: “خانق سومديرو”
  • Basque: “Sumidero arroila”
  • Cebuano: “Cañón El Sumidero”
  • Chinese: “苏米德罗峡谷”
  • Czech: “Cañón El Sumidero”
  • Dutch: “Canon del Sumidero”
  • Dutch: “Cañón del Sumidero”
  • Esperanto: “Kanjono de Sumidero”
  • French: “canyon du Sumidero”
  • French: “Canyon du Sumidero”
  • German: “Cañón del Sumidero”
  • Hebrew: “קניון סומידרו”
  • Hungarian: “Sumidero-kanyon”
  • Italian: “Canyon del Sumidero”
  • Japanese: “スミデロ峡谷”
  • Lithuanian: “Sumidero kanjonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cañón del Sumidero”
  • Norwegian: “Cañón del Sumidero”
  • Polish: “Cañón del Sumidero”
  • Polish: “Kanion Sumidero”
  • Russian: “Каньон Сумидеро”
  • Spanish: “Cañón del Sumidero”
  • Spanish: “Cañón El Sumidero”
  • Ukrainian: “Сумідеро”
  • Venetian: “Canyon del Sumidero”

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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 “Cañón del Sumidero”. Photo: Antony Stanley, CC BY-SA 2.0.