Pacific Coast
Oaxaca
Santa Catarina Juquila

Juquila

Juquila is a village of about 5,500 residents in Mexico's southern state of . Officially named Santa Catarina Juquila, it is a town of limited broad appeal, but huge appeal to faithful pilgrims who come to the town to venerate a small statue of the Virgin Mary that survived a catastrophic fire that burned everything in town sparing only the doll-sized figure, known as the Virgen de Juquila.
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  • Type: Town with 6,220 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Mexico
  • Also known as: “Santa Catarina” and “Santa Catarina Juquila”

Juquila

Latitude
16.2372° or 16° 14′ 14″ north
Longitude
-97.2911° or 97° 17′ 28″ west
Population
6,220
Elevation
1,441 metres (4,728 feet)
Open location code
76846PP5+VH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 458606374
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3517669
Wiki­data ID
Q3890910
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“Juquila” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Santa Catarina Juquila (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Dutch: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Esperanto: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • French: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Georgian: “სანტა-კატარინა-ხუკილა”
  • German: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Italian: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Scots: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Serbian: “Санта Катарина Хукила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Catarina Juquila, Oaxaca”
  • Spanish: “Juquila”
  • Spanish: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Swedish: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Turkish: “Santa Catarina Juquila”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Catarina Juquila”

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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 “Juquila”. Photo: Summ, CC BY-SA 3.0.