Mexico
Pacific Coast
Jalisco

Cocula

Cocula is a small city of about 16,500 people in a mountainous area of . It is a tranquil town full of colonial era architecture and style, but is best known as the birthplace of mariachi music. Cocula is one of Mexico's designated .
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  • Type: Residential area
  • Description: municipality in the State of Jalisco, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Cocula Municipality”

Cocula

Latitude
20.3645° or 20° 21′ 52″ north
Longitude
-103.8229° or 103° 49′ 22″ west
Population
29,300
Elevation
1,330 metres (4,364 feet)
Open location code
75GR957G+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 186033739
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Geo­Names ID
8582124
Wiki­data ID
Q924387
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Cocula” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Cocula (conceyu de Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Cocula (Jalisco, Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Cocula”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Cocula”
  • Basque: “Cocula”
  • Breton: “Cocula”
  • Catalan: “Cocula”
  • Cebuano: “Cocula”
  • Danish: “Cocula”
  • Dutch: “Cocula”
  • Esperanto: “Cocula”
  • French: “Cocula”
  • Georgian: “კოკულა (ხალისკო)”
  • Georgian: “კოკულა”
  • German: “Municipio Cocula”
  • Italian: “Cocula”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cocula”
  • Portuguese: “Cocula”
  • Russian: “Кокула”
  • Serbian: “Општина Кокула”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Cocula, Jalisco”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Cocula”
  • Slovenian: “Municipio Cocula”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Cocula”
  • Spanish: “Cocula”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Cocula”
  • Swedish: “Cocula”
  • Turkish: “Cocula (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Cocula”
  • Vietnamese: “Cocula, Jalisco”
  • Vietnamese: “Cocula”
  • Welsh: “Cocula”
  • “Cocollān”

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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 “Cocula”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.