Mapimi
Mapimi is a small, once thriving mining community in the northwestern state of Durango. The town was largely abandoned in the early 20th century as the mineral deposits were exhausted, and today is largely a ghost town with a remaining population of about 5,000.
- Town with about 6,620 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,300 metres (4,270 feet)
- …is also known as “Mapimí, Durango”
- …was formerly known as “Santiago de Mapimí”
- Description: municipal seat of Mapimí, State of Durango, Mexico
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Latitude
25.8337° or 25° 50′ 2″ north
Longitude
-103.848° or 103° 50′ 53″ west
Open location code
75QRR5M2+FQ
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Mapimi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mapimí”
- Asturian: “Mapimí”
- Basque: “Mapimí”
- Breton: “Mapimí”
- Catalan: “Mapimí”
- Cebuano: “Mapimí”
- Chechen: “Мапими (Мапими, Дуранго)”
- Chechen: “Мапими”
- Chinese: “马皮米”
- Croatian: “Mapimí”
- Danish: “Mapimí”
- Dutch: “Mapimí”
- Esperanto: “Mapimí”
- Estonian: “Mapimí”
- Finnish: “Mapimí”
- French: “Mapimi”
- French: “Municipalité de Mapimí”
- Galician: “Mapimí”
- German: “Mapimí”
- Hungarian: “Mapimí”
- Icelandic: “Mapimí”
- Indonesian: “Mapimí”
- Irish: “Mapimí”
- Italian: “Mapimí”
- Japanese: “マピミ”
- Javanese: “Mapimí”
- Lithuanian: “Mapimí”
- Low German: “Mapimí”
- Lower Sorbian: “Mapimí”
- Luxembourgish: “Mapimí”
- Malay: “Mapimí”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mapimí”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mapimí”
- Pennsylvania German: “Mapimí”
- Polish: “Mapimí”
- Portuguese: “Mapimí”
- Romanian: “Mapimí”
- Russian: “Мапими”
- Saterfriesisch: “Mapimí”
- Scots: “Mapimí, Durango”
- Scots: “Mapimí”
- Serbian: “Мапими”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mapimí, Durango”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mapimí”
- Spanish: “Mapimí”
- Swedish: “Mapimí”
- Tagalog: “Mapimí”
- Tatar: “Мапими (Мапими, Дуранго)”
- Tatar: “Мапими”
- Turkish: “Mapimí, Durango”
- Turkish: “Mapimí”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mapimí”
- Vietnamese: “Mapimí”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mapimí”
- Yoruba: “Mapimí”
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