Mexico
Pacific Coast
Nayarit

Compostela

Compostela is a small colonial-era city about 40 km inland from the Pacific Ocean in the Mexican state of . The city is one of Mexico's and its best feature is its large central town square next to its main church.
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  • Type: Town with 20,300 residents
  • Description: municipality of Nayarit, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Compostela Municipality” and “Compostela, Nayarit”

Compostela

Latitude
21.2375° or 21° 14′ 15″ north
Longitude
-104.8994° or 104° 53′ 58″ west
Population
20,300
Elevation
190 metres (623 feet)
Open location code
75HQ64Q2+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1540594205
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8582405
Wiki­data ID
Q2651919
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Compostela” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كومبوستيلا”
  • Asturian: “Compostela (conceyu de Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Compostela (Nayarit, Méxicu)”
  • Asturian: “Compostela”
  • Asturian: “conceyu de Compostela”
  • Basque: “Compostela (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Compostela”
  • Catalan: “Compostela”
  • Cebuano: “Compostela”
  • Dutch: “Compostela”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كومبوستيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Compostela”
  • French: “Compostela”
  • Friulian: “Compostela”
  • Galician: “Compostela”
  • German: “Compostela”
  • Italian: “Compostela”
  • Japanese: “コンポステーラ”
  • Ladino: “Compostela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Compostela”
  • Portuguese: “Compostela”
  • Russian: “Компостела”
  • Scots: “Compostela, Nayarit”
  • Scots: “Compostela”
  • Serbian: “Општина Компостела”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Compostela, Nayarit”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Compostela”
  • Spanish: “Compostela”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Compostela”
  • Swedish: “Compostela, Mexiko”
  • Swedish: “Compostela”
  • Turkish: “Compostela”
  • Venetian: “Compostela”
  • “Compostela”
  • “Municipio de Compostela”

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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 “Compostela”. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.