El Fuerte
El Fuerte is a colonial city of 13,000 people in Sinaloa. El Fuerte, meaning "The Fort", was named a Pueblo Mágico in 2010, for it has many attractions and a special, pretty-small-town aura.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hansm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hansm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 12,800 residents
- Description: town in northern Sinaloa, Mexico.
- Also known as: “El Fuerte de Montes Claros”, “El Fuerte, Sinaloa”, and “Fuerte”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Fuerte Airport.
El Fuerte Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Bavareze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Fuerte Airfield is a small airfield located in El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico. It handles domestic air traffic and supports flight training and general aviation activities.
El Fuerte
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: El Fuerte Municipality, Sinaloa, Northern Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
26.4156° or 26° 24′ 56″ northLongitude
-108.6173° or 108° 37′ 2″ westPopulation
12,800Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX ELFOpen location code
75RHC98M+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 1559366456OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“El Fuerte” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “El Fuerte”
- Asturian: “El Fuerte”
- Basque: “El Fuerte”
- Bavarian: “El Fuerte”
- Breton: “El Fuerte”
- Catalan: “El Fuerte”
- Cebuano: “El Fuerte de Montes Claros”
- Chinese: “埃尔富埃尔特”
- Chinese: “埃爾富埃爾特”
- Croatian: “El Fuerte”
- Danish: “El Fuerte”
- Dutch: “El Fuerte de Montes Claros”
- Dutch: “El Fuerte”
- Estonian: “El Fuerte”
- Finnish: “El Fuerte”
- French: “El Fuerte”
- Galician: “El Fuerte”
- German: “El Fuerte”
- Hungarian: “El Fuerte”
- Icelandic: “El Fuerte”
- Indonesian: “El Fuerte”
- Irish: “El Fuerte”
- Italian: “El Fuerte”
- Japanese: “エル・フエルテ”
- Javanese: “El Fuerte”
- Lithuanian: “El Fuerte”
- Low German: “El Fuerte”
- Lower Sorbian: “El Fuerte”
- Luxembourgish: “El Fuerte”
- Malay: “El Fuerte”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Fuerte”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “El Fuerte”
- Norwegian: “El Fuerte”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Fuerte”
- Pennsylvania German: “El Fuerte”
- Persian: “ال فورتی”
- Polish: “El Fuerte”
- Portuguese: “El fuerte”
- Portuguese: “El Fuerte”
- Romanian: “El Fuerte”
- Russian: “Эль-Фуэрте”
- Saterfriesisch: “El Fuerte”
- Scots: “El Fuerte”
- Serbian: “Ел Фуерте (Ел Фуерте, Синалоа)”
- Serbian: “Ел Фуерте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Fuerte”
- Spanish: “El Fuerte de Montes Claros”
- Spanish: “El Fuerte”
- Swedish: “El Fuerte de Montes Claros”
- Swedish: “El Fuerte”
- Tagalog: “El Fuerte”
- Turkish: “El Fuerte”
- Upper Sorbian: “El Fuerte”
- Vietnamese: “El Fuerte”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Fuerte”
- Yoruba: “El Fuerte”
- “El Fuerte”
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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 “El Fuerte”. Photo: Hansm, CC BY-SA 3.0.