Yucatán & the South
Chiapas
Tapachula Municipality

Tapachula

Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez or simply Tapachula is a city of 320,000 people in . Tapachula is Mexico's main border city with Guatemala on the Pacific coast area although it is some kilometers away from the border.
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  • Type: City with 218,000 residents
  • Description: city of Chiapas, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Tapachula de Cordova y Ordoñez” and “Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez”

Tapachula

Latitude
14.9043° or 14° 54′ 15″ north
Longitude
-92.2609° or 92° 15′ 39″ west
Population
218,000
Elevation
165 metres (541 feet)
IATA airport code
TAP
Open location code
7669WP3Q+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 324351668
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3516266
Wiki­data ID
Q988225
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Tapachula” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tapachula”
  • Arabic: “تاباتشولا، غواتيمالا”
  • Arabic: “تاباتشولا”
  • Asturian: “Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez”
  • Bengali: “টাপাচুলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Тапачула”
  • Cebuano: “Tapachula (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Tapachula”
  • Chinese: “塔帕丘拉”
  • Chinese: “泰珀速立”
  • Danish: “Tapachula”
  • Dutch: “Tapachula”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاباتشولا, جواتيمالا”
  • Esperanto: “Tapachula”
  • Esperanto: “Tapaĉula”
  • Finnish: “Tapachula”
  • French: “Tapachula”
  • German: “Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez”
  • German: “Tapachula”
  • Greek: “Ταπατσούλα”
  • Gujarati: “ટેપાચુલા”
  • Hebrew: “טפצ’ולה”
  • Hindi: “तापाचुला”
  • Hungarian: “Tapachula”
  • Indonesian: “Tapachula”
  • Irish: “Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez”
  • Italian: “Tapachula”
  • Japanese: “タパチューラ”
  • Japanese: “タパチュラ”
  • Kannada: “ತಪಚುಲಾ”
  • Korean: “타파출라”
  • Ladino: “Tapachula”
  • Latvian: “Tapačula”
  • Lithuanian: “Tapačula”
  • Malay: “Tapachula”
  • Marathi: “टॅपाचुला”
  • Moksha: “Тапачула дэ Кордова и Ордоньез”
  • Moksha: “Тапачула”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tapachula”
  • Norwegian: “Tapachula”
  • Persian: “تاپاچولا”
  • Polish: “Tapachula”
  • Portuguese: “Tapachula”
  • Russian: “Тапачула-де-Кордова-и-Ордоньес”
  • Russian: “Тапачула”
  • Russian: “Тапачуле”
  • Scots: “Tapachula”
  • Serbian: “Тапаћула”
  • Serbian: “Тапачула де Кордова и Ордоњез”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tapachula, Chiapas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tapachula”
  • Sinhala: “ටපචුලා”
  • Spanish: “Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez”
  • Spanish: “Tapachula”
  • Swahili: “Tapachula, Chiapas”
  • Swahili: “Tapachula”
  • Swedish: “Tapachula (kommunhuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Tapachula de Córdova y Ordóñez”
  • Swedish: “Tapachula”
  • Tagalog: “Tapachula”
  • Tamil: “டபாச்சுலா”
  • Tatar: “Тапачула”
  • Telugu: “తపాచుల”
  • Thai: “ทาปาชูล่า”
  • Turkish: “Tapachula”
  • Ukrainian: “Тапачула”
  • Urdu: “تاپاچولا”
  • Venetian: “Tapachula”
  • Vietnamese: “Tapachula”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tapachula”
  • “Tlapāchōllān”

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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 “Tapachula”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.