El Oro de Hidalgo
El Oro de Hidalgo is a small colonial era town in northwestern Mexico State that was once a hub of mining activity. Many visitors come for its colorful history and charming old-world atmosphere, but it also offers opportunities for outdoor recreation, particularly on Presa Brockman, a man-made lake, and the pine forests of nearby Rayon National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Thelmadatter, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 5,780 residents
- Description: human settlement in Mexico
- Also known as: “El Oro Hidalgo” and “Oro de Hidalgo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tlalpujahua.
Tlalpujahua
Photo: Octavio Alonso Maya …, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tlalpujahua is a small town of about 3,600 residents in Michoacan. It is a historic gold mining town and an important site in the Mexican War of Independence against Spain.
El Oro de Hidalgo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mexico State, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.8005° or 19° 48′ 2″ northLongitude
-100.13° or 100° 7′ 48″ westPopulation
5,780Elevation
2,748 metres (9,016 feet)Open location code
75FXRV2C+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 1922208403OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4008868Wikidata ID
Q27785387
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Turkish—“El Oro de Hidalgo” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “এল ওরো দে ইদাল্গো”
- Catalan: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Cebuano: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Dutch: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- French: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- German: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Ladino: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Serbian: “Ел Оро де Идалго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Oro de Hidalgo, México”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Spanish: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Spanish: “El Oro”
- Swedish: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- Turkish: “El Oro de Hidalgo”
- “El Oro de Hidalgo”
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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 Oro de Hidalgo”. Photo: Thelmadatter, Public domain.