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Oaxaca

Capulalpam de Méndez

Capulalpam de Méndez, usually known as simply Capulalpam, is a small village in the rugged mountains of in southern Mexico. The village is tiny with less than 1,500 residents, yet it was the first town in Oaxaca to be designated a Pueblo Magico.
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  • Type: Village with 1,550 residents
  • Description: town in the Sierra Juárez in Oaxaca in southern Mexico
  • Also known as: “Capulalpam de Mendez”

Capulalpam de Méndez

Latitude
17.3061° or 17° 18′ 22″ north
Longitude
-96.4461° or 96° 26′ 46″ west
Population
1,550
Elevation
2,073 metres (6,801 feet)
Open location code
76958H43+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 458607995
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
8582721
Wiki­data ID
Q590948
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Capulalpam de Méndez” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Capulálpam de Méndez (conceyu de Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Basque: “Capulálpam de Méndez (udalerria)”
  • Cebuano: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Dutch: “Capulalpam de Méndez”
  • Esperanto: “Capulalpam de Méndez”
  • Georgian: “კაპულალპამ-დე-მენდესი”
  • German: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Italian: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Japanese: “カプラルパム・デ・メンデス”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Norwegian: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Persian: “کاپولالپام د مندز”
  • Scots: “Capulalpam de Mendez”
  • Scots: “Capulalpam de Méndez”
  • Serbian: “Капулалпам де Мендез”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Spanish: “Capulalpam de Mendez”
  • Spanish: “Capulalpam de Méndez”
  • Spanish: “Capulálpam de Mendez”
  • Spanish: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Swedish: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Turkish: “Capulálpam de Méndez”
  • Vietnamese: “Capulalpam de Méndez”
  • “Capōlālpan Méndez”
  • “Capōlāpan Méndez”

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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 “Capulalpam de Méndez”. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.