Cuetzalan

Cuetzalan is a scenic colonial town in the highlands of northern in Central Mexico. The town has lots of white colonial buildings with dark red bands painted across the bottoms, set among steep cobblestone streets.
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  • Type: Locality with 5,790 residents
  • Description: city in Puebla
  • Also known as: Chetzalán”, “Ciudad de Cuetzalan”, “Coetzalan”, “Cuetzalán del Progreso”, “Cuetzan del Progreso”, and “San Francisco

Cuetzalan

Latitude
20.0177° or 20° 1′ 4″ north
Longitude
-97.5228° or 97° 31′ 22″ west
Population
5,790
Elevation
979 metres (3,212 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX CDP
Open location code
76G42F9G+3V
Geo­Names ID
3529932
Wiki­data ID
Q2651808
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Cuetzalan” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Cuetzalan
  • Cebuano: Ciudad de Cuetzalan
  • Chinese: 库埃察兰
  • Dutch: Cuetzalan
  • German: Ciudad de Cuetzalan
  • German: Cuetzalan del Progreso
  • Irish: Cuetzalan
  • Japanese: スィウダー・デ・クェツァラン
  • Japanese: スィウダード・デ・クェツァラン
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Cuetzalan
  • Norwegian: Cuetzalan
  • Russian: Сьюдад-де-Куэцалан
  • Serbian: Сиудад де Куезалан (Куезалан дел Прогресо)
  • Serbian: Сиудад де Куезалан
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ciudad de Cuetzalan, Cuetzalan del Progreso
  • Spanish: Ciudad de Cuetzalan
  • Spanish: Cuetzalan
  • Swedish: Ciudad de Cuetzalan
  • Swedish: Cuetzalan
  • Turkish: Cuetzalan
  • Uzbek: Cuetzalan del Progreso
  • Vietnamese: Cuetzalan del Progreso
  • Cuetzallān
  • Quetzallān

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Cuetzalan”. Photo: Luce051, CC BY-SA 4.0.