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Chihuahua

Chihuahua is a state in . It is known for its great deserts, its snow-capped mountains and ravines covered with alpine forests, which make it well-suited for ecotourism.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Juarez and Chihuahua.

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is a city in the state of Chihuahua, . It stands on the Rio Grande, across the United States border from . is rich in the northern culture of Mexico, and is home to the Mexican vaquero culture.

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is the capital of the state of in . The colonial center of is beautiful and pedestrian friendly. The centro has museums dedicated to Pancho Villa, another museum about the national mint, government palaces, and historic churches as well as luxurious mansions and villas.

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is an archaelogical zone in the northern state of in . It is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 800 years ago, sat at the crossroads between the Mesoamerican cultures of Mexico and the cultures of what is today the American southwest.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Parral and Copper Canyon.

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, also known as Hidalgo del , is a small city in Chihuahua. The historic mining town has a colorful history, particularly during the Mexican Revolution when a local woman gained fame fighting off the U.S.

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is a canyon system in the Sierra Tarahumara in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in . There are many ways to explore such as hiking, biking, driving or horseback riding.

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is a town of 28,000 people in Chihuahua. It is a rural bordertown on the U.S.-Mexico border, with the city of , , directly opposite, on the U.S. side of the border.

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is a city of 4,400 people in the Sierra Tarahumara in Chihuahua state. Tourism is the primary industry because it is close to the and to , one of the highest waterfalls in Mexico.

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is a small village in a side canyon of the in . It was once a prosperous mining town that made millionaires of a handful of wealthy landowners, but today is largely a ghost town with a population of about 1200 hardy souls.

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is a city of 15,000 people in the southwestern part of Chihuahua state. If you are interested in indigenous cultures, you'll want to visit to experience and learn about the reclusive Tarahumara people.

is a small town in the state of Chihuahua. With a highland location in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range, the town's elevation of 2,112 meters gives it a pleasantly cool climate where dense pine forests thrive.

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is in the state of Chihuahua. The park showcases extraordinary rock formations that have been shaped by wind and water erosion.

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is in the western side of the state of Chihuahua in the heart of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range. The park is named after Basaseachic Falls the second tallest waterfall in Mexico with a height of 246 m.

Chihuahua

Latitude of center
28.5° or 28° 30′ north
Longitude of center
-106° or 106° west
Population
3,740,000
Elevation
1,928 metres (6,325 feet)
Abbreviation
“CHH”
Abbreviation
“CH”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626893
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4014336
Wiki­data ID
Q655
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chihuahua” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chihuahua”
  • Arabic: “ولاية تشيواوا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية شيواوا”
  • Aragonese: “Chihuahua”
  • Armenian: “Չիուաուա”
  • Asturian: “Chihuahua”
  • Aymara: “Chihuahua Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çiuaua”
  • Balinese: “Chihuahua (negara wagian)”
  • Balinese: “Chihuahua”
  • Basque: “Chihuahua”
  • Belarusian: “Чыўаўа”
  • Belarusian: “штат Чыўаўа”
  • Bengali: “চিউয়াউয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Chihuahua”
  • Breton: “Chihuahua”
  • Bulgarian: “Чиуауа”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Chihuahua”
  • Cebuano: “Chihuahua”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیھواھوا”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیواوا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی چیواوا”
  • Chechen: “Чиуауа”
  • Cherokee: “ᏥᏩᏩ”
  • Cheyenne: “Chihuahua”
  • Chinese: “Chihuahua Chiu”
  • Chinese: “奇瓦瓦州”
  • Chinese: “契瓦瓦州”
  • Chinese: “芝華華州”
  • Chinese: “赤瓦瓦州”
  • Cornish: “Chihuahua”
  • Croatian: “Chihuahua”
  • Czech: “Chihuahua”
  • Danish: “Chihuahua”
  • Dutch: “Chihuahua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية شيواوا”
  • Esperanto: “Chihuahua”
  • Estonian: “Chihuahua osariik”
  • Finnish: “Chihuahua”
  • French: “Chihuahua”
  • Galician: “Estado de Chihuahua”
  • Georgian: “ჩიუაუა”
  • Georgian: “ჩიუაუის შტატი”
  • German: “Chihuahua”
  • Greek: “Τσιουάουα”
  • Gujarati: “ચિહુઆહુઆ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יוואווה”
  • Hindi: “चिहुआहुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Chihuahua”
  • Icelandic: “Chihuahua (fylki)”
  • Icelandic: “Chihuahua”
  • Ido: “Chihuahua”
  • Iloko: “Chihuahua”
  • Indonesian: “Chihuahua”
  • Interlingua: “Stato Chihuahua”
  • Interlingua: “Stato de Chihuahua”
  • Irish: “Chihuahua”
  • Italian: “Chihuahua”
  • Japanese: “チワワ州”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಹುವಾಹುವಾ”
  • Korean: “치와와주”
  • Ladino: “Chihuahua”
  • Latin: “Chihuahua”
  • Latvian: “Čivava”
  • Lithuanian: “Čihuahua”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chihuahua”
  • Macedonian: “Чивава”
  • Malay: “Chihuahua”
  • Marathi: “चिवावा”
  • Mazanderani: “چیئوائوا ایالت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chihuahua Chiu”
  • Navajo: “Aʼą́ą́łání Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “चिहुवाहुवा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chihuahua (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Chihuahua”
  • Norwegian: “Chihuahua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chihuahua (estat)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chihuahua”
  • Ossetian: “Чиуауæ”
  • Pampanga: “Chihuahua”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੀਵਾਵਾ”
  • Persian: “ایالت چی‌واوا”
  • Persian: “ایالت چیواوا”
  • Piemontese: “Chihuahua”
  • Polish: “Chihuahua”
  • Portuguese: “Chihuahua”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Chihuahua”
  • Quechua: “Chihuahua suyu”
  • Romanian: “Chihuahua”
  • Romansh: “Chihuahua”
  • Russian: “Чиуауа”
  • Sardinian: “Chihuahua”
  • Sardinian: “Tzihuahua”
  • Scots: “Chihuahua”
  • Serbian: “Ћивава”
  • Serbian: “чивава”
  • Serbian: “Чивава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chihuahua”
  • Sinhala: “චිහුආහුආ”
  • Sinhala: “චිහුවාහුවා ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Chihuahua”
  • Slovenian: “Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Chihuahua”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua”
  • Swahili: “Chihuahua”
  • Swedish: “Chihuahua”
  • Tagalog: “Chihuahua”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Чиуауа”
  • Tajik: “Иёлоти Чиуауа”
  • Tamil: “சிஹுஹாஹுவா”
  • Tatar: “Чивава (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Чивава”
  • Telugu: “చిహువాహువా”
  • Thai: “รัฐชิวาวา”
  • Thai: “รัฐชีวาวา”
  • Tumbuka: “Chihuahua”
  • Turkish: “Chihuahua”
  • Ukrainian: “Чіуауа”
  • Urdu: “چہواہوا”
  • Uzbek: “Chiuaua”
  • Venetian: “Chihuahua (stato)”
  • Venetian: “Chihuahua”
  • Vietnamese: “Chihuahua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chihuahua”
  • Welsh: “Chihuahua”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیہواہوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “奇瓦瓦州”
  • Yue Chinese: “芝華華州”
  • “Chihuahua”

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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 “Chihuahua”. Photo: HJPD, CC BY-SA 3.0.