Taxco
Taxco is a beautiful city in Mexico built on a hill in Guerrero. It is rich with old and new silver mines in the surrounding areas with narrow winding streets and hundreds of silver shops.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: María Quezada Aranda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Town with 52,200 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Taxco, State of Guerrero, Mexico
- Also known as: “Tasco”, “Taxco de Alarcon”, and “Taxco de Alarcón”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santa Prisca Church.
Santa Prisca Church
Church
Photo: Mario guerrero ledesma 1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Parroquia de Santa Prisca y San Sebastían, commonly known as the Church of Santa Prisca, is a colonial monument located in the city of Taxco de Alarcón, in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico, built between 1751 and 1759.
Taxco
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.5565° or 18° 33′ 24″ northLongitude
-99.6053° or 99° 36′ 19″ westPopulation
52,200Elevation
1,770 metres (5,807 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX TXAOpen location code
76C2H94V+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 273606737OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Taxco” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاكسكو”
- Armenian: “Տասկո դե Ալարկոն”
- Asturian: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Catalan: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Catalan: “Taxco”
- Cebuano: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Chechen: “Таско де Аларкон (Таско де Аларкон, Герреро)”
- Chechen: “Таско де Аларкон”
- Chinese: “塔克斯科”
- Chinese: “塔斯科·德阿拉爾孔”
- Chinese: “塔斯科”
- Czech: “Taxco”
- Danish: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Danish: “Taxco”
- Dutch: “Taxco de Alarcon”
- Dutch: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Dutch: “Taxco”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكسكو”
- Esperanto: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- French: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- French: “Taxco”
- Galician: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- German: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- German: “Taxco”
- Hungarian: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Italian: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Italian: “Taxco”
- Japanese: “タクスコ”
- Japanese: “タスコ・デ・アラルコン”
- Japanese: “タスコ（ゲレーロ州）”
- Japanese: “タスコ”
- Korean: “탁스코”
- Ladino: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Lithuanian: “Taskas”
- Lithuanian: “Tasko de Alarkonas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taxco”
- Norwegian: “Taxco”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Taxco”
- Persian: “تاکسکو”
- Polish: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Portuguese: “Taxco de alarcón”
- Portuguese: “Taxco”
- Romanian: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Romanian: “Taxco”
- Russian: “Таско-де-Аларкон”
- Russian: “Тахко-де-Аларкон”
- Serbian: “Таско де Аларкон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Spanish: “Taxco de Alarcon”
- Spanish: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Spanish: “Taxco”
- Swedish: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- Tatar: “Таско де Аларкон (Таско де Аларкон, Герреро)”
- Tatar: “Таско де Аларкон”
- Turkish: “Taxco”
- Ukrainian: “Таско-де-Аларкон”
- Ukrainian: “Таско”
- Ukrainian: “Тахко-де-Аларкон”
- Urdu: “تاکسکو”
- Vietnamese: “Taxco de Alarcón”
- “Tlachco”
- “Tlachco Alarcón”
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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 “Taxco”. Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.