San Juan Chamula

San Juan Chamula, usually referred to as simply Chamula, is a small town in the mountainous jungles of in southern Mexico. Chamula is the main town of the indigenous Tzotzil people.
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  • Type: Town with 4,730 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Chamula, State of Chiapas, Mexico
  • Also known as: Bohom” and “Chamula

San Juan Chamula

Latitude
16.7873° or 16° 47′ 14″ north
Longitude
-92.6902° or 92° 41′ 25″ west
Population
4,730
Elevation
2,289 metres (7,510 feet)
Open location code
7689Q8P5+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 387433255
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3531172
Wiki­data ID
Q1061542
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“San Juan Chamula” goes by many names.
  • Basque: San Juan Chamula
  • Cebuano: Chamula (lungsod)
  • Cebuano: Chamula
  • Croatian: Chamula
  • Dutch: Chamula
  • Esperanto: San Juan Chamula
  • French: Chamula
  • French: San Juan Chamula
  • Georgian: ჩამულა
  • German: Chamula
  • German: San Juan Chamula
  • Italian: Chamula
  • Italian: San Juan Chamula
  • Japanese: チャムーラ
  • Polish: San Juan Chamula
  • Russian: Сан-Хуан-Чамула
  • Russian: Чамула
  • Scots: Chamula
  • Serbian: Чамула
  • Serbo-Croatian: Chamula, Chiapas
  • Serbo-Croatian: Opština Chamula
  • Slovenian: Chamula
  • Spanish: Chamula
  • Spanish: San Juan Chamula
  • Swedish: Chamula (ort)
  • Swedish: San Juan Chamula
  • Turkish: Chamula
  • Vietnamese: Chamula
  • Chamollan
  • Chamollān
  • Chamula
  • Chamullān
  • San Juan Chamollan
  • San Juan Chamula

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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 “San Juan Chamula”. Photo: Bruno Rijsman, CC BY-SA 2.0.