El Rosario

El Rosario is a coastal town on the Sea of Cortez in southern , Mexico. The town's main church is famous for having a beautifully ostentatious gold altar that stuns visitors, even in a country where astounding churches are common.
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  • Type: Town with 16,000 residents
  • Description: city and its surrounding municipality in the Mexican state of Sinaloa
  • Also known as: El Rosario, Sinaloa

El Rosario

Latitude
22.9921° or 22° 59′ 31″ north
Longitude
-105.8573° or 105° 51′ 26″ west
Population
16,000
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MX RSR
Open location code
75JPX4RV+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1668214818
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3988416
Wiki­data ID
Q1858643
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Vietnamese—“El Rosario” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: এল রোসারিও
  • Cebuano: El Rosario
  • Chinese: 罗萨里奥
  • Dutch: El Rosario
  • Dutch: Rosario
  • French: Rosario
  • German: El Rosario
  • German: Rosario
  • Hebrew: אל רוסאריו
  • Italian: El Rosario
  • Japanese: エル・ロサリオ
  • Korean: 엘로사리오
  • Moksha: Эль Росариа (Синалоа)
  • Moksha: Эль Росариа
  • Polish: Rosario
  • Portuguese: Rosario
  • Russian: Росарио
  • Scots: El Rosario, Sinaloa
  • Scots: Rosario
  • Serbian: Ел Росарио
  • Serbo-Croatian: El Rosario, Sinaloa
  • Serbo-Croatian: El Rosario
  • Spanish: El Rosario
  • Spanish: Municipio de Rosario
  • Swedish: El Rosario, Sinaloa
  • Swedish: El Rosario
  • Vietnamese: Rosario, Sinaloa
  • Vietnamese: Rosario

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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 Rosario”. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.