Cholula
Cholula is a city in Puebla state, 15 km west of the city of Puebla. It is a mid-size city with a population of about 150,000. The Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid on a platform in the world.Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Great Pyramid of Cholula
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The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl, is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
Cholula
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Cholula was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BCE, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier.
San Miguel Arcángel Fountain
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San Miguel Arcángel Fountain is installed in Cholula, Puebla's Plaza de la Concordia, in Mexico.
Localities in the Area
San Andrés Cholula
San Andrés Cholula is the municipal seat of San Andrés Cholula Municipality located in the…Cholula
- Type: Town with 87,900 residents
- Description: city and district of the state of Puebla, in central Mexico
- Categories: locality of Mexico and city
- Location: San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
19.0614° or 19° 3' 41" northLongitude
-98.3061° or 98° 18' 22" westPopulation
87,900Elevation
2,156 metres (7,073 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX SPCOpen Location Code
76F33M6V+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 448081494GeoNames ID
3530757Wikidata ID
Q1007232Cholula Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Cholula, Puebla
- Basque: Cholula
- Catalan: Cholula
- Catalan: San Andrés Cholula
- Catalan: San Pedro Cholula
- Cebuano: Cholula
- Chinese: 乔卢拉
- Chinese: 喬盧拉
- Dutch: Cholula
- Dutch: Cholula de Rivadavia
- English: Cholula, Puebla
- English: San Pedro Cholula
- Esperanto: San Andrés Cholula
- Finnish: Cholula
- French: Cholollan
- French: Cholula
- French: Cholula de Rivadavia
- French: Grande Pyramide de Cholula
- German: Cholula
- German: Cholula de Rivadavia
- German: San Pedro Cholula
- Hungarian: San Andrés Cholula
- Italian: Cholula
- Italian: Cholula de Rivadavia
- Japanese: サン・ペドゥロ・チョルラ
- Japanese: チョルーラ・デ・リバダビア
- Korean: 촐룰라
- Latin: Cholula de Rivadavia
- Lithuanian: Čolula
- Macedonian: Чолула
- Norwegian: Cholula
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cholula
- Persian: چولولا
- Polish: Cholula
- Portuguese: Cholula
- Russian: Сан-Педро-Чолула
- Russian: Чолула
- Scots: Cholula, Puebla
- Scots: Cholula
- Serbian: Чолула де Ривадавија
- Serbo-Croatian: Cholula, Puebla
- Serbo-Croatian: Cholula
- Spanish: Cholula
- Spanish: Cholula de Rivadavia
- Spanish: San Pedro Cholula
- Swedish: Cholula
- Uzbek: Cholula, Puebla
- Uzbek: Cholula
- Waray (Philippines): Cholula, Puebla
Other Places Named Cholula
In the Area
- Cholula de RivadaviaTown
- Fuerte de GuadalupeHamlet
- El RefugioNeighbourhood
- San Cristóbal TepontlaHamlet
- Barrio de Nuevo LeónVillage, 3½ km northeast
- Tonantzintla (Santa María Tonantzintla)Hamlet, 4 km south
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Cholula. Photo: Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0.