Janitzio
Janitzio is an island on Lake Patzcuaro in the state of Michoacan. This little island is crowded with houses and shops to sell to tourists, thousands of whom flock here for Day of the Dead.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Isco huerta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,460 residents
- Description: island in Mexico
- Also known as: “Isla de Janitzio” and “Janitzio Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monument to Morelos on Janitzio Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jaracuaro and Ihuatzio.
Jaracuaro
Photo: Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jaracuaro is a village on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The old mission of San Pedro stands on the site which was a shrine to the Tarascan moon goddess Xaratanga.
Ihuatzio
Village
Ihuatzio is a small, traditionally Purhepecha indigenous town on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro in Michoacan, Mexico. The town is known for its archaeological site with 1,000-year-old ruins that were occupied by two different pre-Hispanic indigenous cultures. Ihuatzio is situated 3½ km east of Janitzio.
Janitzio
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Patzcuaro, Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.5741° or 19° 34′ 27″ northLongitude
-101.6517° or 101° 39′ 6″ westPopulation
2,460Elevation
2,100 metres (6,890 feet)Open location code
75FWH8FX+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1951834912OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4004318Wikidata ID
Q2637479
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Janitzio” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Janitzio”
- Catalan: “Janitzio”
- Cebuano: “Janitzio”
- Chinese: “哈尼齊奧島”
- Chinese: “哈尼齐奥”
- Dutch: “Janitzio”
- French: “Île de Janitzio”
- French: “Janitzio”
- German: “Janitzio”
- Hungarian: “Janitzio”
- Indonesian: “Janitzio”
- Japanese: “ハニツィオ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Janitzio”
- Norwegian: “Janitzio”
- Russian: “Ханицио”
- Spanish: “Janitzio”
- Swedish: “Janitzio”
- Thai: “เกาะฆานิตซิโอ”
- Ukrainian: “Ханіціо”
- “Janitzio”
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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 “Janitzio”. Photo: Isco huerta, CC BY-SA 4.0.