Sayula
Sayula is a small colonial town in a mountainous region of southwestern Mexico in the state of Jalisco. The town is known as the birthplace of Juan Rulfo, one of Mexico's most prominent literary figures. It is one of Mexico's designated Pueblos Mágicos.
- Type: Town with 26,800 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Sayula, State of Jalisco, Mexico
- Also known as: “Sayula, Jalisco”
Sayula
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Jalisco, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.8821° or 19° 52′ 56″ north
Longitude
-103.5989° or 103° 35′ 56″ west
Population
26,800
Elevation
1,351 metres (4,432 feet)
UN/LOCODE
MX 9SY
Open location code
75FRVCJ2+VC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Sayula” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sayula”
- Cebuano: “Sayula (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Sayula”
- Chechen: “Саюла (Саюла, Халиско)”
- Chechen: “Саюла”
- Dutch: “Sayula”
- French: “Sayula”
- German: “Sayula”
- Russian: “Саюла”
- Serbian: “Општина Сајула”
- Serbian: “Сајула”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sayula, Jalisco”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sayula”
- Slovenian: “Sayula”
- Spanish: “Sayula”
- Swedish: “Sayula, Jalisco”
- Swedish: “Sayula”
- Tatar: “Саюла”
- Turkish: “Sayula”
- Urdu: “سیولا، جلیسکو”
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