San Juan Chamula
San Juan Chamula, usually referred to as simply Chamula, is a small town in the mountainous jungles of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Chamula is the main town of the indigenous Tzotzil people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Chamula, Chiapas, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
16.7873° or 16° 47′ 14″ northLongitude
-92.6902° or 92° 41′ 25″ westPopulation
4,730Elevation
2,289 metres (7,510 feet)Open location code
7689Q8P5+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 387433255OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3531172Wikidata 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.