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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gera vzqz92, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,620 residents
- Description: City and municipal seat of the municipality of Mapimí in the Mexican state of Durango
- Also known as: “Mapimí”, “Mapimí, Durango”, and “Santiago de Mapimí”
Mapimi
- Categories: locality of Mexico, city, and locality
- Location: Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Northern Mexico, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.8337° or 25° 50′ 2″ northLongitude
-103.848° or 103° 50′ 53″ westPopulation
5,620Elevation
1,296 metres (4,252 feet)Open location code
75QRR5M2+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1876293848OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3996647Wikidata ID
Q1892048
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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: “Mapimi”
- Spanish: “Mapimí”
- Swedish: “Mapimí”
- Tagalog: “Mapimí”
- Turkish: “Mapimí, Durango”
- Turkish: “Mapimí”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mapimí”
- Vietnamese: “Mapimí”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mapimí”
- Yoruba: “Mapimí”
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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 “Mapimi”. Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.