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Central Mexico
Veracruz

Xalapa

Xalapa is the capital of in . Xalapa is a college town that enjoys some fine colonial architecture as well as a nice climate in the highlands above the hot and humid Veracruz coast.
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  • Type: City with 443,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz
  • Also known as: “Jalapa”, “Jalapa Enríquez”, “Xalapa-Enríquez”, and “Xālāpan”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Xalapa Museum of Anthropology and Macuiltépec.

Museum
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an anthropological in the city of Xalapa, capital of the state of in eastern . It is known for its collection of artifacts from Mesoamerican Gulf Coast cultures such as the Olmec, Totonac, and Huastec, including several .

Nature reserve
Photo: Koffermejia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Stadium
Photo: Koffermejia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Stadium at Xalapa, , is located a few blocks south and downhill of the center of town, and can be easily seen from the terraces of Parque Juárez.

Xalapa

Latitude
19.5408° or 19° 32′ 27″ north
Longitude
-96.9146° or 96° 54′ 53″ west
Population
443,000
Elevation
1,396 metres (4,580 feet)
IATA airport code
JAL
United Nations Location Code
MX JAL
Open location code
76F5G3RP+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 959618169
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3526617
Wiki­data ID
Q221051
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Xalapa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جالابا”
  • Arabic: “خالابا”
  • Armenian: “Խալապա-Էնրիկես”
  • Armenian: “Խալապա”
  • Basque: “Xalapa”
  • Belarusian: “Халапа-Энрыкес”
  • Belarusian: “Халапа”
  • Belarusian: “Халяпа Энрыкес”
  • Belarusian: “Халяпа-Энрыкес”
  • Belarusian: “Халяпа”
  • Bengali: “হালাপা”
  • Bulgarian: “Халапа”
  • Catalan: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Catalan: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Catalan: “Xalapa”
  • Cebuano: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Central Kurdish: “خالاپا”
  • Chinese: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Chinese: “哈拉帕”
  • Czech: “Jalapa”
  • Czech: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Czech: “Xalapa”
  • Danish: “Xalapa”
  • Dutch: “Jalapa Enriquez”
  • Dutch: “Xalapa de Enríquez, Xalapa”
  • Dutch: “Xalapa de Enriquez”
  • Dutch: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Dutch: “Xalapa-Enriquez”
  • Dutch: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Dutch: “Xalapa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جالابا”
  • Esperanto: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Esperanto: “Xalapa”
  • Estonian: “Xalapa”
  • Finnish: “Xalapa”
  • French: “Jalapa”
  • French: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • French: “Xalapa”
  • Galician: “Xalapa”
  • Georgian: “ხალაპა”
  • German: “Jalapa Enriquez”
  • German: “Jalapa Enríquez”
  • German: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • German: “Xalapa Enriquez”
  • German: “Xalapa Enríquez”
  • German: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • German: “Xalapa”
  • Greek: “Ξαλάπα”
  • Greek: “Χαλάπα”
  • Gujarati: “ઝાલાપા”
  • Hebrew: “חלפה-אנריקס”
  • Hebrew: “חלפה”
  • Hindi: “ज़लापा”
  • Hungarian: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Iloko: “Jalapa”
  • Iloko: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Iloko: “Xalapa”
  • Indonesian: “Xalapa”
  • Irish: “Xalapa”
  • Italian: “Jalapa”
  • Italian: “Xalapa”
  • Japanese: “ハラパ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಲಾಪಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xalapa”
  • Korean: “할라파”
  • Ladino: “Xalapa de Enriquez”
  • Latin: “Ialapa”
  • Latvian: “Halapa”
  • Lithuanian: “Chalapa”
  • Lithuanian: “Xalapa-Enriquez”
  • Lithuanian: “Xalapa”
  • Malagasy: “Xalapa”
  • Malay: “Xalapa”
  • Maltese: “Xalapa”
  • Marathi: “एक्सलापा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Moksha: “Халапа-Энрикэс”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jalapa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Northern Frisian: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Northern Frisian: “Xalapa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jalapa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xalapa de Enriquez”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xalapa Enríquez”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xalapa”
  • Norwegian: “Jalapa”
  • Norwegian: “Xalapa”
  • Ossetian: “Халапæ-Энрикес”
  • Persian: “زالاپا”
  • Polish: “Jalapa Enriques”
  • Polish: “Jalapa”
  • Polish: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Polish: “Xalapa”
  • Portuguese: “Jalapa Enríquez”
  • Portuguese: “Jalapa”
  • Portuguese: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Portuguese: “Xalapa”
  • Quechua: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Romanian: “Xalapa”
  • Russian: “Халапа (город)”
  • Russian: “Халапа-Энрикес”
  • Russian: “Ялапа, город в Мексике”
  • Scots: “Xalapa”
  • Serbian: “Halapa”
  • Serbian: “Xalapa”
  • Serbian: “Халапа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Xalapa de Enríquez, Xalapa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Xalapa”
  • Silesian: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Sinhala: “එක්සල්පා”
  • Slovak: “Xalapa”
  • Slovenian: “Xalapa”
  • Spanish: “Jalapa de Enriquez”
  • Spanish: “Jalapa de Enríquez”
  • Spanish: “Jalapa”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa de Enriquez”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa Enriquez”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa Enríquez”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa Veracruz”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa-Enriquez”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Spanish: “Xalapa”
  • Swahili: “Xalapa”
  • Swedish: “Jalapa Enriquez”
  • Swedish: “Jalapa Enríquez”
  • Swedish: “Jalapa-Enriquez”
  • Swedish: “Jalapa-Enríquez”
  • Swedish: “Jalapa”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa (delstatshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa de Enríquez”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa Enriquez”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa Enríquez”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa-Enriquez”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa-Enríquez”
  • Swedish: “Xalapa”
  • Tagalog: “Xalapa”
  • Tamil: “அலாப்பா”
  • Tamil: “சேலாபா”
  • Tatar: “Халапа”
  • Telugu: “జలప”
  • Thai: “ซาลาปา”
  • Thai: “ฮาลาปา”
  • Turkish: “Xalapa”
  • Ukrainian: “Халапа-Енрикес”
  • Ukrainian: “Халапа-Енрікес”
  • Ukrainian: “Халапа”
  • Urdu: “خالاپا”
  • Uzbek: “Xalapa”
  • Venetian: “Xalapa”
  • Vietnamese: “Xalapa”
  • Volapük: “Xalapa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Xalapa”
  • Western Mari: “Халапа-Энрикес”
  • “Xalapa”
  • “Xalapan”
  • “Xalapan Altepetl”
  • “Xalapan Enríquez”

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