Central Mexico
Puebla
San Pedro Cholula

Cholula

Cholula is a city in , 15 km west of the . It is a mid-size city with a population of about 150,000. The Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid on a platform in the world.
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  • Type: Town with 87,900 residents
  • Description: city and district of the state of Puebla, in central Mexico
  • Also known as: “Cholula, Puebla” and “San Pedro Cholula”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Pyramid of Cholula and Cholula.

Archaeological site
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The , also known as Tlachihualtepetl, is a complex located in Cholula, , . It is the largest archaeological site of a pyramid in the world, as well as the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier.

Museum
Photo: Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Andrés Cholula.

Town
is the municipal seat of Municipality located in the Metropolitan area of Puebla, in the center west of the state of in the central highlands of , 122 km east of and eight kilometres west of the city of Puebla.

Cholula

Latitude
19.0614° or 19° 3′ 41″ north
Longitude
-98.3061° or 98° 18′ 22″ west
Population
87,900
Elevation
2,156 metres (7,073 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX SPC
Open location code
76F33M6V+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 448081494
Geo­Names ID
3530757
Wiki­data ID
Q1007232
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Cholula” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cholula”
  • Catalan: “Cholula”
  • Catalan: “San Andrés Cholula”
  • Catalan: “San Pedro Cholula”
  • Cebuano: “Cholula”
  • Chinese: “乔卢拉”
  • Chinese: “喬盧拉”
  • Danish: “Cholula”
  • Danish: “San Pedro Cholula”
  • Dutch: “Cholula de Rivadavia”
  • Dutch: “Cholula”
  • Esperanto: “San Andrés Cholula”
  • Finnish: “Cholula”
  • French: “Cholollan”
  • French: “Cholula de Rivadavia”
  • French: “Cholula”
  • French: “Grande Pyramide de Cholula”
  • Galician: “Cholula”
  • German: “Cholula de Rivadavia”
  • German: “Cholula”
  • German: “San Pedro Cholula”
  • Hungarian: “San Andrés Cholula”
  • Italian: “Cholula de Rivadavia”
  • Italian: “Cholula”
  • Japanese: “サン・ペドゥロ・チョルラ”
  • Japanese: “チョルーラ・デ・リバダビア”
  • Korean: “촐룰라”
  • Latin: “Cholula de Rivadavia”
  • Lithuanian: “Čolula”
  • Macedonian: “Чолула”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cholula”
  • Norwegian: “Cholula”
  • Persian: “چولولا”
  • Polish: “Cholula”
  • Portuguese: “Cholula”
  • Russian: “Сан-Педро-Чолула”
  • Russian: “Чолула”
  • Scots: “Cholula, Puebla”
  • Scots: “Cholula”
  • Serbian: “Чолула де Ривадавија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cholula, Puebla”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cholula”
  • Slovenian: “Cholula”
  • Spanish: “Cholula de Rivadavia”
  • Spanish: “Cholula”
  • Spanish: “San Pedro Cholula”
  • Swedish: “Cholula”
  • Uzbek: “Cholula”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cholula, Puebla”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cholula”
  • “Cholollan”

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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 “Cholula”. Photo: Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0.