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Oaxaca

Oaxaca is a state on the Pacific Ocean in southwest of . The state is well known for its cuisine, and its indigenous peoples and cultures. Its Pacific coast has the major resort of Huatulco and sandy beaches of Puerto Escondido, Puerto Ángel, Zipolite, Bahia de Tembo, and Mazunte.
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Top destinations include Oaxaca and Monte Alban.

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is a city in the state of in Mexico. It lies at an altitude of 1,555 m, so in winter nights are cold and days are warm to hot. In summer it's always hot and often wet.

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Monte Albán is a Zapotec and Mixtec archaeological site in the state of Oaxaca in , preserving the center of an ancient city that was a contemporary of Teotihuacán in central Mexico.

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is a town in Oaxaca on the Oaxaca-Pacific coastline. It's known for its big waves and excellent surfing conditions. "Escondido" means "hidden", but in a well-connected world that's no longer true.

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is a port city and transportation hub on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca in southern . Most visitors to the city are either engaged in the shipping business, or they're heading to nearby beaches for the surfing.

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is one of the most important Zapotec archaeological sites in Oaxaca, second only to . The site is strange in that the modern town of San Pablo Villa de has grown in and around the ancient ruins, so that there are different archaelogical zones with ruins, sometimes blocks away from each other, all of which comprise the official Zona Arquelogica.

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Bahías de , is a destination resort area on Mexico's Pacific Coast in its most southern state of Oaxaca. More commonly known to outsiders as just , the area is locally referred to as "Bahias" to distinguish it from the original, further-inland town of Santa María .

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, formally known as de Jimenez, is a small town in the Sierra Mazateca mountains of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The town is home to an indigenous group called the Mazatec whose shaman reportedly indulge in psychoactive mushrooms and morning glory seeds among other mind-expanding fungi and plants.

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is a small beach town on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, . It is located 22 km southwest of on coastal Highway 200. is located some 10 km to the west of and just about 1 km from and 264 km south of the capital of Oaxaca.

is a town 2 hours north of in Oaxaca. The town is mostly visited over the weekend from people from Oaxaca and is still under the radar for international tourists.

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Nestled in the scenic valleys of the state of Oaxaca, , is a hidden gem far from the crowds of more obvious tourist hotspots.

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is set of natural rock formations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, , that resemble cascades of water.

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is a growing backpacker beach destination along the south-western Pacific coast of Oaxaca, . A new highway built in 2024 has cut the travel time from Oaxaca in half, now only 4 hours by bus.

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is a village of about 5,500 residents in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca. Officially named Santa Catarina , it is a town of limited broad appeal, but huge appeal to faithful pilgrims who come to the town to venerate a small statue of the Virgin Mary that survived a catastrophic fire that burned everything in town sparing only the doll-sized figure, known as the Virgen de .

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, usually known as simply Capulalpam, is a small village in the rugged mountains of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The village is tiny with less than 1,500 residents, yet it was the first town in Oaxaca to be designated a Pueblo Magico.

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is on the Pacific coast of the Oaxaca State in , about 54 km west of , near a village called Zapotalito.

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is a large mountainous park in Oaxaca, . The park is very natural with few improvements yet is just 8 minutes by taxi from downtown Oaxaca.

Oaxaca

Latitude of center
17° north
Longitude of center
-96.5° or 96° 30′ west
Population
4,130,000
Elevation
1,644 metres (5,394 feet)
Abbreviation
“OAX”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3522509
Wiki­data ID
Q34110
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Oaxaca” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Oaxaca”
  • Afrikaans: “Oaxaca”
  • Albanian: “Oaxaca”
  • Amharic: “Oaxaca”
  • Amharic: “ኦአሻቻ”
  • Amharic: “ወሓካ”
  • Arabic: “Oaxaca”
  • Arabic: “ولاية أواكساكا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية اواكساكا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية واهاكا”
  • Arabic: “ولايه اواكساكا”
  • Aragonese: “Estato de Oaxaca”
  • Aragonese: “Oaxaca”
  • Armenian: “Oaxaca”
  • Armenian: “Օախակա”
  • Asturian: “Oaxaca”
  • Aymara: “Oaxaca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oaxaka”
  • Balinese: “Oaxaca”
  • Basque: “Oaxaca”
  • Belarusian: “Oaxaca”
  • Belarusian: “Аахака”
  • Belarusian: “Оахака”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Аахака”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াহাকা”
  • Bishnupriya: “Oaxaca”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওআজাচা”
  • Breton: “Oaxaca”
  • Bulgarian: “Оахака”
  • Burmese: “Oaxaca”
  • Burmese: “အိုအေဂျေစီအ”
  • Catalan: “Estat d’Oaxaca”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Oaxaca”
  • Catalan: “Oaxaca”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Oaxaca”
  • Chavacano: “Oaxaca”
  • Chechen: “Оахака (штат)”
  • Chechen: “Оахака”
  • Cherokee: “Oaxaca”
  • Cherokee: “ᎣᎠᏍᎠᏂ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏩᎭᎧ”
  • Cheyenne: “Oaxaca”
  • Chinese: “Oaxaca Chiu”
  • Chinese: “Oaxaca”
  • Chinese: “奧亞沙加州”
  • Chinese: “瓦哈卡州”
  • Chinese: “瓦哈卡市”
  • Cornish: “Oaxaca”
  • Croatian: “Oaxaca”
  • Czech: “Oaxaca”
  • Danish: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca”
  • Danish: “Oaxaca”
  • Dhivehi: “Oaxaca”
  • Dhivehi: “މެއޭކްއޭކްއޭ”
  • Dutch: “Oaxaca”
  • Dzongkha: “Oaxaca”
  • Dzongkha: “གའཀར།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “Oaxaca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أواكساكا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “واخاكا”
  • Esperanto: “Oaĥako”
  • Esperanto: “Oaŝako”
  • Esperanto: “Oaxaca”
  • Estonian: “Oaxaca osariik”
  • Finnish: “Oaxaca”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca”
  • French: “etat d’Oaxaca”
  • French: “état d’Oaxaca”
  • French: “état de l’Oaxaca”
  • French: “état de Oaxaca”
  • French: “MX-OAX”
  • French: “Oaxaca”
  • Galician: “EEstado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca”
  • Galician: “Estado de Oaxaca”
  • Galician: “Oaxaca”
  • Georgian: “Oaxaca”
  • Georgian: “ოახაკა”
  • Georgian: “ოახაკის შტატი”
  • German: “Huāxyacac”
  • German: “MX-OAX”
  • German: “Oaxaca”
  • Greek: “Oaxaca”
  • Greek: “Οαχάκα”
  • Guarani: “Oaxaca”
  • Gujarati: “ઓક્સાકા”
  • Hausa: “Oaxaca”
  • Hebrew: “Oaxaca”
  • Hebrew: “אואחאקה”
  • Hebrew: “ואחאקה”
  • Hindi: “Oaxaca”
  • Hindi: “ओक्साका”
  • Hindi: “वाहाका”
  • Hungarian: “Oaxaca”
  • Icelandic: “Oaxaca (fylki)”
  • Icelandic: “Oaxaca”
  • Ido: “Oaxaca”
  • Iloko: “Oaxaca”
  • Indonesian: “Oaxaca”
  • Interlingua: “Oaxaca”
  • Interlingua: “Stato Oaxaca”
  • Inuktitut: “Oaxaca”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓯᐊᙳᓰᖂ”
  • Irish: “Oaxaca”
  • Italian: “Oaxaca”
  • Japanese: “Oaxaca”
  • Japanese: “オアハカ州”
  • Kannada: “ಓಕ್ಸಾಕ”
  • Korean: “오아하카주”
  • Ladino: “Oaxaca”
  • Latin: “Guaxaca”
  • Latin: “Oaxaca”
  • Latvian: “Oahaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Oachaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Oachakos valstija”
  • Lithuanian: “Oašaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Oašakos valstija”
  • Macedonian: “Оахака”
  • Malagasy: “Oaxaca”
  • Malay: “Oaxaca”
  • Malayalam: “Oaxaca”
  • Malayalam: “ഓഅക്ഷക”
  • Malayalam: “വഹാക്ക”
  • Marathi: “Oaxaca”
  • Marathi: “ओवाहाका”
  • Marathi: “वाशाका”
  • Marathi: “वाहाका”
  • Mazanderani: “Oaxaca”
  • Mazanderani: “اوآخاکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Oaxaca”
  • Mongolian: “Oахака”
  • Mongolian: “Вахака”
  • Mongolian: “Оахака”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oaxaca (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oaxaca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oaxaca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Oaxaca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oaxaca”
  • Norwegian: “Oaxaca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oaxaca (estat)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oaxaca”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “Oaxaca”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܠܐܗܘ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܘܐܟܐܩܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Huāxyacac”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “MX-OAX”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oaxaca”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wāhæcland”
  • Ossetian: “Oaxaca”
  • Ossetian: “Оахакæ”
  • Ossetian: “Оахака”
  • Pampanga: “Oaxaca”
  • Panjabi: “Oaxaca”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਹਾਕਾ”
  • Persian: “Oaxaca”
  • Persian: “اوآخاکا”
  • Persian: “اواخاکا”
  • Persian: “اوکساکا”
  • Piemontese: “Oaxaca”
  • Polish: “Oaxaca”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Oaxaca”
  • Portuguese: “Oaxaca”
  • Quechua: “Oaxaca suyu”
  • Quechua: “Oaxaca”
  • Quechua: “Oaxaka”
  • Romanian: “Oaxaca”
  • Romansh: “Oaxaca”
  • Russian: “Оахака”
  • Sardinian: “Oassaca”
  • Sardinian: “Oaxaca”
  • Scots: “Oaxaca”
  • Serbian: “Estado de Oaxaca”
  • Serbian: “Oaxaca”
  • Serbian: “Држава Оаксака”
  • Serbian: “Држава Оахака”
  • Serbian: “Оаксака”
  • Serbian: “Оахака”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oahaka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oaksaka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oaxaca”
  • Sinhala: “ඔඇක්සකා”
  • Sinhala: “ඔක්සාකා ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Oaxaca”
  • Slovenian: “Oaxaca”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Oaxaca”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca”
  • Spanish: “Oaxaca”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Antequera”
  • Swahili: “Oaxaca”
  • Swedish: “Oaxaca”
  • Swiss German: “Oaxaca”
  • Tagalog: “Oaxaca”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Оахака”
  • Tajik: “Оахака”
  • Tamil: “Oaxaca”
  • Tamil: “ஒஅக்சாகா”
  • Tamil: “வஃகாக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Оахака (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Оахака”
  • Telugu: “ఓవక్సాకా”
  • Thai: “Oaxaca”
  • Thai: “รัฐวาฮากา”
  • Thai: “รัฐโออาซากา”
  • Tibetan: “Oaxaca”
  • Tibetan: “གའཀ”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Oaxaca”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oaxaca”
  • Tumbuka: “Oaxaca”
  • Turkish: “Oaxaca”
  • Ukrainian: “Оахака”
  • Ukrainian: “Штат Оахака”
  • Urdu: “Oaxaca”
  • Urdu: “اوکساکا”
  • Urdu: “واخاکا”
  • Uzbek: “Oaksaka”
  • Uzbek: “Oaxaca”
  • Venetian: “Oaxaca (stato)”
  • Venetian: “Oaxaca”
  • Vietnamese: “Oaxaca”
  • Vlax Romani: “Oaxaca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oaxaca”
  • Welsh: “Huāxyacac”
  • Welsh: “MX-OAX”
  • Welsh: “Oaxaca”
  • Western Frisian: “Oaxaca”
  • Western Panjabi: “Oaxaca”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوکساکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “Oaxaca”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦哈卡”
  • Yiddish: “Oaxaca”
  • Yiddish: “אָאַקסאַקאַ”
  • Yiddish: “וואכאקא”
  • Yue Chinese: “Oaxaca”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓦哈卡”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlahtohkayotl tlen Waxyakak”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlatilantli tlen Waxyakak”
  • “Waxyakak”
  • “Waxyakak Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Waxyakak Tlatilantli”

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