Zempoala
Zempoala is a town along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Veracruz. It is historically important as an initial contact point between Spanish conquerors and the Totonoc people, the first allies of the Spanish in Mexico, and the eventual key to their conquest of the Aztec empire.
Photo: Gengiskanhg, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 9,250 residents
- Description: Mesoamerican archaeological site in Veracruz, Mexico
- Also known as: “Cempoala”
Zempoala
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Veracruz, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.4444° or 19° 26′ 40″ north
Longitude
-96.4083° or 96° 24′ 30″ west
Population
9,250
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
Open location code
76F5CHVR+QM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Zempoala” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սեմպոալա”
- Belarusian: “Семпаала”
- Chinese: “坎波拉”
- Chinese: “澤姆波阿拉”
- Czech: “Cempoala”
- Dutch: “Cempoala”
- Esperanto: “Cempoala”
- French: “Cempoala”
- French: “Zempoala”
- German: “Cempoala”
- Italian: “Cempoala”
- Italian: “Zempoala”
- Japanese: “センポアラ”
- Russian: “Вилла Семпоала”
- Russian: “Семпоала”
- Spanish: “Cempoala”
- Spanish: “Villa Zempoala”
- Spanish: “Zempoala (arqueologia)”
- Spanish: “Zempoala (arqueología)”
- Turkish: “Cempoala”
- Ukrainian: “Семпоала”
- Uzbek: “Sempoala”
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