Rio Lagartos

Río Lagartos is a coastal town in the northeast of Yucatan. It is a relaxing, quiet town that aside from its beaches and seafood restaurants, is world famous for its population of tens of thousands of pink flamingos who breed in the adjacent Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve.
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  • Type: Village with 2,490 residents
  • Description: town in Yucatan, Mexico
  • Also known as: Río Lagartos

Rio Lagartos

Latitude
21.5965° or 21° 35′ 47″ north
Longitude
-88.158° or 88° 9′ 29″ west
Population
2,490
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
76HHHRWR+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 289796177
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3520249
Wiki­data ID
Q6115313
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Rio Lagartos” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Río Lagartos
  • Cebuano: Río Lagartos
  • French: Río Lagartos
  • Galician: Río Lagartos
  • German: Río Lagartos
  • Russian: Рио-Лагартос
  • Serbian: Рио Лагартос
  • Serbo-Croatian: Río Lagartos, Yucatán
  • Serbo-Croatian: Río Lagartos
  • Spanish: Rio Lagartos
  • Spanish: Río Lagartos
  • Swedish: Río Lagartos
  • Vietnamese: Río Lagartos

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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 “Rio Lagartos”. Photo: Isabel A01706197, CC BY-SA 4.0.