Mismaloya
Mismaloya is a small beach community on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, just south of Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco. It is best known as the filming location for the 1964 The Night of the Iguana, which put this stretch of the coast on the tourism map.
- Type: Village with 743 residents
- Description: town in Puerto Vallarta Municipality, State of Jalisco, Mexico
- Also known as: “Boca Mismaloya”
Mismaloya
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
20.5322° or 20° 31′ 56″ north
Longitude
-105.2892° or 105° 17′ 21″ west
Population
743
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
75GPGPJ6+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Tatar—“Mismaloya” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Мисмалоя (Пуерто Вальярта)”
- Chechen: “Мисмалоя”
- Dutch: “Mismaloya”
- Serbian: “Мисмалоја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mismaloya”
- Spanish: “Mismaloya”
- Swedish: “Mismaloya”
- Tatar: “Мисмалоя”
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