Zihuatanejo

Zihuatanejo is a city of 130,000 people on the of in the state of . It is a fishing village that has developed into one of the most-visited areas in Mexico.
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  • Type: Town with 67,400 residents
  • Description: municipal seat of Zihuatanejo, State of Guerrero, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo”, “Zihuatanejo de Azueta”, and “ジワタネホ”
  • Postal code: 40880

Zihuatanejo

Latitude
17.6469° or 17° 38′ 49″ north
Longitude
-101.5519° or 101° 33′ 7″ west
Population
67,400
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
ZIH
UN/LOCODE
MX XIH and MX ZIH
Open location code
759WJCWX+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 325654014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3979673
Wiki­data ID
Q202831
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Zihuatanejo” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo”
  • Chechen: “Зиватанехо (Зиватанехо де Азуета)”
  • Chechen: “Зиватанехо”
  • Chinese: “芝華塔尼歐”
  • Chinese: “锡瓦塔内霍”
  • Czech: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Danish: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Dutch: “Zihuatanejo”
  • French: “Zihuatanejo”
  • German: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Hebrew: “סיוואטנחו”
  • Hungarian: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Indonesian: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Italian: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Japanese: “シワタネホ”
  • Macedonian: “Сиуатанехо”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Norwegian: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Persian: “خوزه ازوتا، گوئررو”
  • Persian: “خوزه ازوتا”
  • Polish: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Portuguese: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Russian: “Сиуатанехо”
  • Serbian: “Зиватанехо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Zihuatanejo de Azueta”
  • Spanish: “Ixtapa Zihuatanejo”
  • Spanish: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Swedish: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Tatar: “Зиватанехо (Зиватанехо де Азуета)”
  • Tatar: “Зиватанехо”
  • Turkish: “Zihuatanejo”
  • Urdu: “زیہواتانیجو”
  • Vietnamese: “José Azueta”
  • Wu Chinese: “锡瓦塔内霍”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯華坦尼奧”
  • “Zihuatanejo”

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Places to explore: El Posquelite and Ixtapa Zihuatanejo.

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