San Juan del Rio

San Juan del Rio is a mid-size city in the southern part of . 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.
Photo: Gabriel monarca, Public domain.
  • Type: City with 178,000 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of San Juan del Río, State of Querétaro, Mexico
  • Also known as: San Juan del Río

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puente de la Historia, San Juan del Río.

Monument
is a monument.

San Juan del Rio

Latitude
20.3868° or 20° 23′ 12″ north
Longitude
-99.9932° or 99° 59′ 36″ west
Population
178,000
Elevation
1,923 metres (6,309 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
MX SJO and MX SJR
Open location code
76G292P4+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273597039
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3518692
Wiki­data ID
Q1815099
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Waray—“San Juan del Rio” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: সান হুয়ান দেল রিও
  • Cebuano: San Juan del Río
  • Central Kurdish: سان خوان دێل ڕیۆ
  • Chechen: Сан Хуан дел Рио (Сан Хуан дел Рио, Керетаро)
  • Chechen: Сан Хуан дел Рио
  • Chinese: 滨河圣胡安
  • Chinese: 濱河聖胡安
  • Danish: San Juan del Rio
  • Danish: San Juan del Río
  • Dutch: San Juan del Río (ort i Mexiko, Querétaro Arteaga, San Juan del Río, lat 20,39, long -100,00)
  • Dutch: San Juan del Río
  • Esperanto: San Juan del Río
  • Galician: San Juan del Río
  • Georgian: სან-ხუან-დელ-რიო (ოახაკა)
  • Georgian: სან-ხუან-დელ-რიო
  • German: San Juan del Río
  • Greek: Δήμος Σαν Χουάν ντελ Ρίο
  • Greek: Σαν Χουάν ντελ Ρίο
  • Hebrew: סן חואן דל ריו
  • Italian: San Juan del Río
  • Japanese: サン・ファン・デル・リオ
  • Korean: 산후안델리오
  • Ladino: San Juan del Río
  • Norwegian Bokmål: San Juan del Rio
  • Norwegian Bokmål: San Juan del Río
  • Norwegian: San Juan del Río
  • Persian: سن خوان دل ریو
  • Polish: San Juan del Río
  • Portuguese: San Juan del Río
  • Russian: Сан-Хуан-дель-Рио
  • Serbian: Сан Хуан дел Рио
  • Serbo-Croatian: San Juan del Río, Querétaro
  • Serbo-Croatian: San Juan del Río
  • Spanish: San Juan del Rio
  • Spanish: San Juan del Río
  • Swahili: San Juan del Río, Querétaro
  • Swahili: San Juan del Río
  • Swedish: San Juan del Rio
  • Swedish: San Juan del Río
  • Tatar: Сан-Хван-дел-Рио
  • Urdu: سان خوان دیل ریو
  • Vietnamese: San Juan del Río, Querétaro
  • Vietnamese: San Juan del Río
  • Waray (Philippines): San Juan del Río
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