Mexico
Bajío
Guanajuato

Guanajuato

Guanajuato is a city in the Bajio region of central and is the capital city of the state bearing the same name. It is 390 km northwest of Mexico City.
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  • Type: City with 70,100 residents
  • Description: capital city of the State of Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ciudad Guanajuato”, “Guanajuato City”, “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”, and “Guanajuato, Mexico”
Photo: Grotte, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basílica Colegiata de Guanajuato and Callejón del Beso.

Church
Photo: Pachanka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Photo: Vlad Litvinov, CC BY 2.0.

The is a historic place in Guanajuato, , . The mansion dates to the 18th century. During the 1890s and 1900s, the Tadeo Fulgencío Mejía serial murders occurred here.

Guanajuato

Latitude
21.0159° or 21° 0′ 57″ north
Longitude
-101.2528° or 101° 15′ 10″ west
Population
70,100
Elevation
2,010 metres (6,594 feet)
Open location code
75HW2P8W+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269907416
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4005270
Wiki­data ID
Q61306
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Guanajuato” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خواناجواتو”
  • Arabic: “غواناخواتو”
  • Aragonese: “Guanajuato”
  • Armenian: “Գուանախուատո”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá de Guanajuato”
  • Asturian: “Guanajuato”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quanaxuato”
  • Basque: “Guanajuato”
  • Belarusian: “Гуанахуата”
  • Bengali: “গুয়ানাহুয়াতো”
  • Breton: “Guanajuato”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуанахуато”
  • Catalan: “Guanajuato”
  • Cebuano: “Guanajuato (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Guanajuato”
  • Chinese: “Guanajuato”
  • Chinese: “瓜納華托”
  • Chinese: “瓜纳华托”
  • Chinese: “瓜纳托”
  • Chinese: “聯合花園”
  • Croatian: “Guanajuato”
  • Czech: “Guanajuato”
  • Danish: “Guanajuato”
  • Dutch: “Guanajuato”
  • Esperanto: “Guanajuato-urbo”
  • Esperanto: “Guanajuato”
  • Estonian: “Guanajuato”
  • Finnish: “Guanajuato”
  • French: “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • French: “Guanajuato”
  • French: “Ville de Guanajuato”
  • Galician: “Guanajuato”
  • Georgian: “გუანახუატო”
  • German: “Guanajuato”
  • Greek: “Γκουαναχουάτο”
  • Gujarati: “ગુઆનાજુઆટો”
  • Hebrew: “גואנחואטו”
  • Hindi: “गुआनाजुआटो”
  • Hungarian: “Guanajuato”
  • Iloko: “Guanajuato”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Guanajuato”
  • Indonesian: “Guanajuato”
  • Irish: “Cathair Guanajuato”
  • Italian: “Guanajuato”
  • Japanese: “グアナファト”
  • Japanese: “グアナフアト”
  • Japanese: “グアナフアト市”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾನಾಜುವಾಟೊ”
  • Korean: “과나후아토”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Guanajuato”
  • Latvian: “Gvanahvato”
  • Lithuanian: “Guanachuatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvanachuatas”
  • Lombard: “Guanajuato”
  • Malay: “Guanajuato”
  • Maltese: “Belt ta‘ Guanajuato”
  • Maltese: “Belt ta’ Guanajuato”
  • Maltese: “Guanajuato (belt)”
  • Maltese: “Guanajuato”
  • Marathi: “ग्वानुजुआटो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guanajuato”
  • Nauru: “Guanahuato”
  • Nauru: “Guanajuato”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guanajuato”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guanajuato by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guanajuato”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Guanajuato”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guanajuato i Guanajuato”
  • Norwegian: “Guanajuato”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guanajuato”
  • Ossetian: “Гуанахуато (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Гуанахуато”
  • Persian: “گوآناخوآتو سیتی”
  • Persian: “گوآناخوآتو، گوآناخوآتو”
  • Persian: “گوآناخوآتو”
  • Polish: “Guanajuato”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Guanajuato”
  • Portuguese: “Guanajuato”
  • Quechua: “Guanajuato”
  • Romanian: “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • Romanian: “Guanajuato”
  • Russian: “Гуанахуато”
  • Scots: “Guanajuato”
  • Serbian: “Гванахуато”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guanajuato”
  • Silesian: “Guanajuato (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Guanajuato”
  • Sinhala: “ගුවනාජුවාටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Guanajuato”
  • Slovenian: “Guanajuato”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Guanajuato”
  • Spanish: “Guanajuato Capital”
  • Spanish: “Guanajuato”
  • Swahili: “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • Swahili: “Guanajuato”
  • Swedish: “Guanajuato”
  • Tamil: “குவாநாஜூவாடு”
  • Tatar: “Гванхвато”
  • Telugu: “గ్వానజువాటో”
  • Thai: “กัวนาฆัวโต”
  • Thai: “กัวนาฮัวโต”
  • Thai: “เอสตาโด เด เกวนาฮัวโต”
  • Turkish: “Guanajuato”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуанахуато”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуанахуато”
  • Urdu: “جواناجواتو”
  • Urdu: “گوانجواتو شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Guanaxuato (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Guanaxuato”
  • Vietnamese: “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • Vietnamese: “Guanajuato”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Guanajuato”
  • Volapük: “Guanajuato (zif)”
  • Volapük: “Guanajuato”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guanajuato”
  • Welsh: “Guanajuato, Guanajuato”
  • Welsh: “Guanajuato”
  • Western Mari: “Гуанахуато”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓜纳华托”
  • “Pachtitlan”

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