Poza Rica
Poza Rica de Hidalgo is a city of 200,000 people in Veracruz. Poza Rica is close to the Costa Esmeralda, the northern beaches of Veracruz, such as Tecolutla, Tuxpan, Cazones and Playa Esmeralda. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of El Tajin is 15 km away.
- Type: Locality with 185,000 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Poza Rica, State of Veracruz, Mexico
- Also known as: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”, “Poza Rica de Hidalgo (ort)”, “Πόσα Ρίκα δε Ιδάλγο”, and “ポサ・リカ”
Poza Rica
- Category: locality of Mexico
- Location: Veracruz, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
20.5332° or 20° 31′ 59″ north
Longitude
-97.4595° or 97° 27′ 34″ west
Population
185,000
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
IATA airport code
PAZ
UN/LOCODE
MX PAZ
Open location code
76G4GGMR+76
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Waray—“Poza Rica” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Cebuano: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Central Kurdish: “پۆزا ڕیکا”
- Chechen: “Поза Рика де Идальго”
- Chinese: “波萨里卡”
- Chinese: “波薩里卡”
- Czech: “Poza Rica”
- Dutch: “Poza Rica”
- Esperanto: “Poza Rica”
- French: “Poza Rica”
- Galician: “Poza Rica”
- Georgian: “პოსა-რიკა”
- German: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Greek: “Πόσα Ρίκα”
- Hebrew: “פוסה ריקה”
- Hungarian: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Italian: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Italian: “Poza Rica”
- Japanese: “ポサ・リカ・デ・イダルゴ”
- Ladino: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Lithuanian: “Posa Rika”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Norwegian: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Persian: “پوزا ریکا، وراکروز”
- Persian: “پوزا ریکا”
- Polish: “Poza Rica”
- Portuguese: “Poza Rica”
- Russian: “Поса-Рика-де-Идальго”
- Serbian: “Поза Рика де Идалго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo, Veracruz”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Slovak: “Poza Rica”
- Spanish: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Spanish: “Poza Rica”
- Swedish: “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- Tatar: “Поза Рика де Идальго”
- Tatar: “Поса-Рика-де-Идальго”
- Tumbuka: “Poza Rica”
- Urdu: “پوسا ریکا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Poza Rica de Hidalgo”
- “Poza Rica”
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