Mexico
Bajío
Zacatecas

Zacatecas

Zacatecas, the capital of the , is a city of 138,000 people in the region of . The town offers a rich travel experience with its historical downtown centro full of colonial architecture, 17th century churches, innovative restaurants and lively night clubs.
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  • Type: City with 138,000 residents
  • Description: city in Zacatecas Municipality, Zacatecas State, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Altepetl Zacatecah”, “Ciudad de Zacatecas”, and “Zacatecas City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of Zacatecas and Estadio Carlos Vega Villalba.

Church
Photo: Jvitela, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of Zacatecas, dedicated to the Virgin of the Assumption, is the main temple of the Diocese of Zacatecas. Located in the historic center of the city, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Stadium
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, formerly known as the Estadio Francisco Villa is a multi-use in Zacatecas, , . It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium for Mineros de Zacatecas.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Guadalupe.

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is a mid-size city of more than 200,000 inhabitants that is a suburb of Zacatecas in the Bajio region of Mexico. has been designated as one of Mexico's .

Zacatecas

Latitude
22.7754° or 22° 46′ 31″ north
Longitude
-102.5723° or 102° 34′ 20″ west
Population
138,000
Elevation
2,480 metres (8,136 feet)
IATA airport code
ZCL
United Nations Location Code
MX ZCL
Open location code
75JVQCGH+53
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269906564
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3979844
Wiki­data ID
Q139242
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Zacatecas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zacatecas, Zacatecas”
  • Afrikaans: “Zacatecas”
  • Arabic: “زاكاتيكاس”
  • Armenian: “Սակատեկաս”
  • Asturian: “Zacatecas”
  • Aymara: “Zacatecas”
  • Basque: “Zacatecas Hiria”
  • Basque: “Zacatecas”
  • Belarusian: “Сакатэкас”
  • Bengali: “সাকাতেকাস”
  • Breton: “Zacatecas”
  • Bulgarian: “Сакатекас (град)”
  • Bulgarian: “Сакатекас”
  • Catalan: “Zacatecas”
  • Cebuano: “Zacatecas (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Zacatecas”
  • Chinese: “Zacatecas”
  • Chinese: “萨卡特卡斯”
  • Chinese: “薩卡特卡斯”
  • Croatian: “Zacatecas (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Zacatecas”
  • Czech: “Zacatecas”
  • Danish: “Zacatecas (by)”
  • Danish: “Zacatecas”
  • Dutch: “Zacatecas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زاكاتيكاس”
  • Esperanto: “Zacatecas (komunumo)”
  • Esperanto: “Zacatecas”
  • Estonian: “Zacatecas”
  • Finnish: “Zacatecas”
  • French: “Zacatecas”
  • Galician: “Zacatecas”
  • Georgian: “საკატეკასი (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “საკატეკასი”
  • German: “Zacatecas”
  • Greek: “Σακατέκας”
  • Gujarati: “ઝેકાટેકસ”
  • Hebrew: “סקטקס”
  • Hindi: “ज़ैकटेकस”
  • Hungarian: “Zacatecas”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Zacatecas”
  • Iloko: “Zacatecas”
  • Indonesian: “Zacatecas, Zacatecas”
  • Indonesian: “Zacatecas”
  • Irish: “Zacatecas”
  • Italian: “Zacatecas”
  • Japanese: “サカテカス”
  • Kannada: “ಝಕಟೆಕಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “사카테카스”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Zacatecas”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Zakatekas”
  • Latvian: “Sakatekasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Sakatekas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sakatekasas”
  • Malay: “Zacatecas, Zacatecas”
  • Malay: “Zacatecas”
  • Maltese: “Zacatecas”
  • Marathi: “झॅकटेकस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zacatecas (chhī)”
  • Mingrelian: “საკატეკასი (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “საკატეკასი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zacatecas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zacatecas”
  • Norwegian: “Zacatecas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zacatecas”
  • Ossetian: “Сакатекас (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Сакатекас”
  • Persian: “زاکاتکاس ٬زاکاتکاس”
  • Polish: “Zacatecas (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Zacatecas”
  • Portuguese: “Zacatecas”
  • Quechua: “Zacatecas”
  • Russian: “Сакатекас”
  • Scots: “Zacatecas”
  • Serbian: “Закатекас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zacatecas, Zacatecas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zacatecas”
  • Sindhi: “زاڪاٽيڪاس شھر”
  • Sinhala: “සකටේකස්”
  • Slovak: “Zacatecas”
  • Spanish: “Zacatecas”
  • Swahili: “Zacatecas, Zacatecas”
  • Swahili: “Zacatecas”
  • Swedish: “Zacatecas (delstatshuvudstad)”
  • Swedish: “Zacatecas”
  • Tamil: “சாகாடெக்காஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сакатекас”
  • Telugu: “జ్యాకేటెకస్”
  • Thai: “ซากาเตกัส”
  • Turkish: “Zacatecas”
  • Ukrainian: “Сакатекас”
  • Urdu: “زاکاٹیکاس”
  • Vietnamese: “Zacatecas (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Zacatecas”
  • Volapük: “Zacatecas (zif)”
  • Volapük: “Zacatecas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zacatecas, Zacatecas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zacatecas”
  • “Sakatlan”
  • “Sakatlan Altepetl”
  • “Zacatecas”

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