Papantla
Located close by El Tajin ruins and the interchange city of Poza Rica, Papantla is known for its downtown square and its cathedral, where voladores perform. Other specialties are its homegrown vanilla liquor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 53,500 residents
- Description: City located in the north of the state of Veracruz, Mexico
- Also known as: “Papanila” and “Papantla de Olarte Veracruz”
Papantla
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Papantla, Veracruz, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
20.4468° or 20° 26′ 48″ northLongitude
-97.3228° or 97° 19′ 22″ westPopulation
53,500Elevation
184 metres (604 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX PPTOpen location code
76G4CMWG+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 472257693OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Papantla” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Papantla”
- Cebuano: “Papantla de Olarte”
- Chechen: “Папантла де Оларте (Папантла)”
- Chechen: “Папантла де Оларте”
- Chinese: “帕潘特拉”
- Dutch: “Papantla de Olarte”
- Dutch: “Papantla”
- Esperanto: “Papantla”
- French: “Papantla”
- Galician: “Papantla”
- Georgian: “პაპანტლა”
- German: “Papantla de Olarte”
- German: “Papantla”
- Italian: “Papantla”
- Japanese: “パパントゥラ・デ・オラルテ”
- Japanese: “パパントゥラ”
- Korean: “파판틀라”
- Lithuanian: “Papantla de Olartė”
- Lithuanian: “Papantla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papantla”
- Norwegian: “Papantla”
- Persian: “پاپانتلا، وراکروز”
- Polish: “Papantla de Olarte”
- Portuguese: “Papantla”
- Russian: “Папантла-де-Оларте”
- Russian: “Папантла”
- Sardinian: “Papantla”
- Serbian: “Папантла де Оларте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Papantla de Olarte, Veracruz”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Papantla de Olarte”
- Spanish: “El Tajín”
- Spanish: “la ciudad que perfuma el mundo”
- Spanish: “la Danza de los Voladores”
- Spanish: “Papantla de Olarte”
- Spanish: “Papantla”
- Spanish: “Vainilla”
- Swedish: “Papantla de Olarte”
- Tatar: “Папантла де Оларте (Папантла)”
- Tatar: “Папантла де Оларте”
- Vietnamese: “Papantla”
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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 “Papantla”. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.