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Celestún

Celestún is a fishing village on the Gulf of Mexico coast in the western part of , . The small town of 8,400 people is completely surrounded by the Ría Celestún Biosphere Reserve, a large protected natural area that is home to more than 200 species of bird including tens of thousands of pink flamingos.
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  • Type: Town with 8,370 residents
  • Description: town in Celestún Municipality, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Celestun”

Celestún

Latitude
20.8608° or 20° 51′ 39″ north
Longitude
-90.3977° or 90° 23′ 52″ west
Population
8,370
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX CET
Open location code
76GFVJ62+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 303035476
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3531368
Wiki­data ID
Q1917547
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Celestún” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Celestún”
  • Chinese: “塞莱斯通”
  • Dutch: “Celestún”
  • Esperanto: “Celestún”
  • French: “Celestún”
  • German: “Celestún”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Celestún”
  • Norwegian: “Celestún”
  • Polish: “Celestun”
  • Polish: “Celestún”
  • Russian: “Селестун”
  • Serbian: “Селестун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Celestún, Yucatán”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Celestún”
  • Spanish: “Celestun”
  • Spanish: “Celestún”
  • Swedish: “Celestún”
  • Vietnamese: “Celestún”

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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 “Celestún”. Photo: Ovedc, CC BY-SA 4.0.