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Querétaro

Queretaro is a state in the region of . It has rugged mountainous terrain and a richly storied colonial past with silver mining cities and cultural treasures.
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Top destinations include Querétaro and San Juan del Rio.

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is a city in . It is the capital of the state of . Its historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the city is notable for the many ornate civil and religious Baroque monuments from its golden age in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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is a mid-size city in the southern part of Querétaro. It is the oldest colonial city in the state, positioned at a strategic river crossing that was part of the silver mining route, Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

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is a colonial town in the state of Queretaro. , or Tequis as it's locally known, is a popular weekend getaway for people living in and is designated as one of Mexico's by the federal government's tourism department.

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is a historic small town in the state of Querétaro. It is one of Mexico's .

is a town in the state of Queretaro. The town is in the Serra Gorda mountains in the huasteca region, and is known for its outdoor recreation.

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La Villa de San Sebastián , better known as , is a small and picturesque village in the Querétaro state of . La Villa de San Sebastián is known as a Pueblo Mágico, a peaceful place that can be explore by foot, visiting craft shops, blanket wool products and handmade candy shops.

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is a small town in the Sierra Gorda region of Queretaro. Most of northern Queretaro is part of the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The town was originally settled by the Spanish in the late 16th century, but much of the historic downtown…

is a town in the Bajio region of Mexico in Querétaro state. Known for its colonial era charm, its Otomi traditions, and its rustic natural ambience with mountains, rivers, and waterfalls. is one of Mexico's designated .

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is a small town in a valley of Queretaro. It is the epicenter of the state's growing wine industry with three major wineries just outside of town and at least a dozen small artesanal wineries within 30 km.

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is a small colonial era town deep in the forested mountains of the Sierra Gorda range in eastern Queretaro. Naturalists will enjoy the dense forests, especially the spectacular range of wildlife inhabiting the nearby .

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is a protected natural wilderness in the rugged mountains of the Sierra Gorda mountain range in eastern Queretaro. It is an area of steep mountains, deep canyons, sheer cliffs, karst cave systems, and mixed forests of conifers, oaks, and other vegetation.

Querétaro

Latitude of center
20.8052° or 20° 48′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
-99.8837° or 99° 53′ 2″ west
Population
1,920,000
Elevation
1,856 metres (6,089 feet)
Abbreviation
“QUE”
Abbreviation
“Qro”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1998904343
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3520914
Wiki­data ID
Q79754
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Querétaro” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Querétaro”
  • Arabic: “ولاية كيريتارو”
  • Arabic: “ولايه كويريتارو”
  • Aragonese: “Querétaro”
  • Armenian: “Կերետարո”
  • Aymara: “Querétaro Istadu”
  • Balinese: “Querétaro”
  • Basque: “Queretaro Arteaga”
  • Basque: “Querétaro Arteaga”
  • Basque: “Queretaro”
  • Basque: “Querétaro”
  • Belarusian: “Керэтара”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Керэтара”
  • Bengali: “কেরেতারো”
  • Breton: “Querétaro”
  • Bulgarian: “Керетаро”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Querétaro”
  • Catalan: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Catalan: “Querétaro”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Querétaro”
  • Chechen: “Керетаро”
  • Cheyenne: “Querétaro”
  • Chinese: “Querétaro Chiu”
  • Chinese: “克雷塔罗州”
  • Chinese: “克雷塔羅州”
  • Chinese: “墨西哥克雷塔罗州”
  • Cornish: “Querétaro”
  • Croatian: “Querétaro”
  • Czech: “Querétaro”
  • Danish: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Danish: “Queretaro”
  • Danish: “Querétaro”
  • Dutch: “Queretaro de Arteaga”
  • Dutch: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Dutch: “Querétaro”
  • Esperanto: “Keretaro”
  • Esperanto: “Queretaro”
  • Esperanto: “Querétaro”
  • Estonian: “Queretaro osariik”
  • Estonian: “Querétaro osariik”
  • Estonian: “Queretaro”
  • Estonian: “Querétaro”
  • Finnish: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Finnish: “Queretaro”
  • Finnish: “Querétaro”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro”
  • French: “État de Querétaro”
  • French: “MX-QUE”
  • French: “Queretaro Arteaga”
  • French: “Querétaro Arteaga”
  • French: “Queretaro de arteaga”
  • French: “Querétaro de arteaga”
  • French: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • French: “Queretaro”
  • French: “Querétaro”
  • Galician: “Estado de Querétaro”
  • Galician: “Querétaro”
  • Georgian: “კერეტარო”
  • Georgian: “კერეტაროს შტატი”
  • German: “MX-QUE”
  • German: “Querétaro (Bundesstaat)”
  • German: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • German: “Querétaro”
  • Greek: “Κερέταρο”
  • Guarani: “Querétaro”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વેરેટેરો”
  • Hebrew: “קרטרו”
  • Hindi: “क्वेरेतारो”
  • Hungarian: “Querétaro”
  • Icelandic: “Querétaro (fylki)”
  • Icelandic: “Querétaro”
  • Ido: “Querétaro”
  • Iloko: “Querétaro”
  • Indonesian: “Querétaro”
  • Interlingua: “Queretaro”
  • Irish: “Querétaro”
  • Italian: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Italian: “Queretaro”
  • Italian: “Querétaro”
  • Italian: “Querètaro”
  • Japanese: “ケレターロ州”
  • Japanese: “ケレタロ州”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವೆರೆಟೊ”
  • Korean: “케레타로주”
  • Ladino: “Querétaro”
  • Latin: “Queretarum”
  • Latvian: “Keretaro de Arteaga”
  • Latvian: “Keretaro”
  • Lithuanian: “Keretaras”
  • Lithuanian: “Keretaro valstija”
  • Malagasy: “Querétaro”
  • Malay: “Querétaro”
  • Maltese: “Querétaro”
  • Marathi: “केरेतारो”
  • Marathi: “क्वेरेतारो”
  • Mazanderani: “کرتارو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Querétaro Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Querétaro (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Querétaro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado de Querétaro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Queretaro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Querétaro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Querétaro”
  • Norwegian: “Querétaro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Querétaro”
  • Ossetian: “Керетаро”
  • Pampanga: “Querétaro”
  • Persian: “کرتارو”
  • Piemontese: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Piemontese: “Querétaro”
  • Polish: “Queretaro”
  • Polish: “Querétaro”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Querétaro”
  • Portuguese: “Querétaro (estado)”
  • Portuguese: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Portuguese: “Querétaro”
  • Quechua: “Querétaro suyu”
  • Romanian: “Queretaro”
  • Romanian: “Querétaro”
  • Romansh: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Romansh: “Queretaro”
  • Romansh: “Querétaro”
  • Russian: “Керетаро”
  • Scots: “Queretaro”
  • Scots: “Querétaro”
  • Serbian: “Estado de Querétaro”
  • Serbian: “Querétaro”
  • Serbian: “Држава Керетаро”
  • Serbian: “Керетаро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Država Keretaro”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Keretaro”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Querétaro”
  • Sinhala: “ක්වෙරෙටරෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ක්වෙරෙටාරෝ ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Querétaro”
  • Slovenian: “MX-QUE”
  • Slovenian: “Querétaro”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Queretaro Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Querétaro Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Queretaro”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Querétaro”
  • Spanish: “Queretaro Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Querétaro Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Queretaro de Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Spanish: “Queretaro”
  • Spanish: “Querétaro”
  • Swahili: “Querétaro”
  • Swedish: “Querétaro Arteaga”
  • Swedish: “Queretaro de Arteaga”
  • Swedish: “Querétaro de Arteaga”
  • Swedish: “Querétaro”
  • Tagalog: “Querétaro”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Керетаро Артеага”
  • Tajik: “Керетаро”
  • Tamil: “யூரேட்டரோ”
  • Tatar: “Керетаро (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Керетаро”
  • Telugu: “క్వెరెటారో”
  • Thai: “Querétaro”
  • Thai: “รัฐเกเรตาโร”
  • Tumbuka: “Querétaro”
  • Turkish: “Querétaro”
  • Ukrainian: “Кверетаро”
  • Ukrainian: “Керетаро Артеаго”
  • Ukrainian: “Керетаро-Артеага”
  • Ukrainian: “Керетаро-де-Артеага”
  • Ukrainian: “Керетаро”
  • Ukrainian: “Куеретаро”
  • Ukrainian: “Штат Керетаро”
  • Urdu: “کوارتارو”
  • Uzbek: “Keretaro (Meksika)”
  • Uzbek: “Keretaro”
  • Venetian: “Querétaro”
  • Vietnamese: “Querétaro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Queretaro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Querétaro”
  • Welsh: “Querétaro”
  • Western Panjabi: “کویراٹارو”
  • Wu Chinese: “克雷塔罗州”
  • Yue Chinese: “克雷塔羅州”
  • “Chichimecalco”
  • “Chīchīmēcalco”
  • “Chīchīmēcalco Arteaga”
  • “Querétaro”
  • “Querétaro Arteaga”

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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 “Querétaro”. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0.