Mexcaltitán
Mexcaltitán, also known as Mexcaltitán de Uribe, is a very old island settlement in Nayarit that may be the original home of the Mexica. Mexcaltitán has been designated as one of Mexico's Pueblos Magicos, despite having a population of only 818 in 2010, usually considered too small to support tourism.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Luismendez12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: Small man-made island-city off the coast in the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla in the Mexican state of Nayarit
- Also known as: “Mexcaltitán de Uribe”, “Mexcaltitlán”, and “Mexcatitlán”
Mexcaltitán
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Santiago de Ixcuintla Municipality, Nayarit, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
21.9058° or 21° 54′ 21″ northLongitude
-105.4751° or 105° 28′ 31″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
75HPWG4F+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 3616571417OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Mexcaltitán” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Meskaltitan”
- Catalan: “Mexcaltitán”
- Czech: “Mexcaltitán de Uribe”
- Dutch: “Mexcaltitan”
- Dutch: “Mexcaltitán”
- French: “Mexcaltitan”
- French: “Mexcaltitán”
- French: “Mexicaltitan”
- German: “Mexcaltitán de Uribe”
- German: “Mexcaltitán”
- Hungarian: “Mexcaltitán”
- Japanese: “メスカルティタン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mexcaltitán”
- Norwegian: “Mexcaltitán”
- Russian: “Мескальтитан-де-Урибе”
- Russian: “Мескальтитан”
- Serbian: “Мескалтитан де Урибе”
- Slovak: “Mexcaltitán de Uribe”
- Spanish: “Mexcaltitan”
- Spanish: “Mexcaltitán”
- Turkish: “Mexcaltitán de Uribe”
- “Mexcaltitan”
- “Mexcaltitán”
- “Mexcaltitan de Uribe”
- “Mexcaltitán de Uribe”
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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 “Mexcaltitán”. Photo: Luismendez12, CC BY-SA 4.0.