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Michoacan
Morelia

Morelia

With a consistent colonial style throughout, Morelia is one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico. It is not really on the well-trodden path of the leisure tourists and so you can walk around in comfort without fear of the bermuda shorts crowds.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museo Regional Michoacano and Estadio Venustiano Carranza.

Museum
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is a museum.

Stadium
Photo: Odiseo79, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Olimpico Venustiano Carranza is a multi-use in Morelia, , used mostly for football matches and also for athletics. It was initially used as the stadium of Monarcas Morelia matches.

Morelia

Latitude
19.7027° or 19° 42′ 10″ north
Longitude
-101.1924° or 101° 11′ 33″ west
Population
743,000
Elevation
1,917 metres (6,289 feet)
IATA airport code
MLM
United Nations Location Code
MX MLM
Open location code
75FWPR35+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269914489
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3995402
Wiki­data ID
Q200252
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Morelia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “موريليا”
  • Aragonese: “Morelia”
  • Armenian: “Մորելիա”
  • Asturian: “Morelia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Morelia”
  • Basque: “Morelia”
  • Belarusian: “Марэлія”
  • Bengali: “মোরেলিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Морелия”
  • Catalan: “Morelia”
  • Cebuano: “Morelia (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Morelia”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆرێلیا”
  • Chinese: “Morelia”
  • Chinese: “莫雷利亚”
  • Chinese: “莫雷利亞”
  • Croatian: “Morelia”
  • Czech: “Morelia”
  • Danish: “Morelia”
  • Dutch: “Morelia”
  • Dutch: “Valladolid de Michoacan”
  • Dutch: “Valladolid de Michoacán”
  • Esperanto: “Morelia”
  • Estonian: “Morelia”
  • Fijian: “Morelia”
  • Finnish: “Morelia”
  • French: “Morelia”
  • Galician: “Morelia”
  • Georgian: “მორელია”
  • German: “Ciudad de Mechuacán”
  • German: “Mechuacán”
  • German: “Morelia”
  • Greek: “Μορέλια”
  • Gujarati: “મોરેલિયા”
  • Hebrew: “מורליה”
  • Hindi: “मोरेलिया”
  • Hungarian: “Morelia”
  • Ido: “Morelia”
  • Iloko: “Morelia”
  • Indonesian: “Morelia”
  • Irish: “Morelia”
  • Italian: “Morelia”
  • Japanese: “モレリア”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊರೆಲಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “모렐리아”
  • Ladino: “Morelia”
  • Latvian: “Morelija”
  • Lithuanian: “Morelija”
  • Lombard: “Morelia”
  • Malagasy: “Morelia”
  • Malay: “Morelia”
  • Maltese: “Morelia”
  • Marathi: “मोरलिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Morelia”
  • Mingrelian: “მორელია”
  • Northern Frisian: “Morelia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Morelia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morelia i Michoacán”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morelia”
  • Norwegian: “Morelia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Morelia”
  • Ossetian: “Морели”
  • Persian: “مورلیا، میچوآکان”
  • Persian: “مورلیا”
  • Polish: “Morelia”
  • Portuguese: “Morelia”
  • Portuguese: “Valladolid”
  • Quechua: “Morelia”
  • Romanian: “Morelia, Michoacán”
  • Romanian: “Morelia”
  • Russian: “Морелия”
  • Sardinian: “Morelia”
  • Scots: “Morelia”
  • Serbian: “Morelia”
  • Serbian: “Morelija”
  • Serbian: “Морелија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Morelia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Morelija”
  • Silesian: “Morelia”
  • Sinhala: “මොරේලියා”
  • Slovak: “Morelia”
  • Slovenian: “Morelia”
  • Spanish: “Morelia”
  • Swahili: “Morelia, Michoacán”
  • Swahili: “Morelia”
  • Swedish: “Morelia”
  • Tagalog: “Morelia”
  • Tamil: “மோரேலியா”
  • Tatar: “Морелия”
  • Telugu: “మోరేలియా”
  • Thai: “มอเรเลีย”
  • Thai: “โมเรเลีย”
  • Tumbuka: “Morelia”
  • Turkish: “Morelia”
  • Ukrainian: “Морелія”
  • Urdu: “موریلیا”
  • Uzbek: “Moreliya”
  • Vietnamese: “Morelia”
  • Volapük: “Morelia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Morelia, Michoacán”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Morelia”
  • Welsh: “Morelia”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫雷利亚”
  • “Michwahkan”

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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 “Morelia”. Photo: Rafael Torres, CC BY-SA 3.0.