Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a state on the Pacific Ocean in southwest of Mexico. The state is well known for its cuisine, and its indigenous peoples and cultures. Its Pacific coast has the major resort of Huatulco and sandy beaches of Puerto Escondido, Puerto Ángel, Zipolite, Bahia de Tembo, and Mazunte.Tap on the map to travel |
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Oaxaca
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Oaxaca is a city in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. It lies at an altitude of 1,555 m, so in winter nights are cold and days are warm to hot.
Monte Alban
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Monte Albán is a Zapotec and Mixtec archaeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, preserving the center of an ancient city that was a contemporary of Teotihuacán in central Mexico.
Puerto Escondido
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Puerto Escondido is a town in Oaxaca on the Oaxaca-Pacific coastline.
Destinations
Salina Cruz
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Salina Cruz is a port city and transportation hub on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
Mitla
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Mitla is one of the most important Zapotec archaeological sites in Oaxaca, second only to Monte Alban.
Huatulco
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Bahías de Huatulco, is a destination resort area on Mexico's Pacific Coast in its most southern state of Oaxaca.
Mazunte
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Mazunte is a small beach village on the Pacific Coast in Oaxaca.
Hierve el Agua
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Hierve el Agua is set of natural rock formations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, Mexico, that resemble cascades of water.
Zipolite
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Zipolite is a growing backpacker beach destination along the south-western Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Santiago Apoala
Santiago Apoala is a town 2 hours north of Oaxaca city in Oaxaca.Capulalpam de Méndez
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Capulalpam de Méndez, usually known as simply Capulalpam, is a small village in the rugged mountains of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
Lagunas de Chacahua National Park
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Lagunas de Chacahua National Park is on the Pacific coast of the Oaxaca State in Mexico, about 54 km west of Puerto Escondido, near a village called Zapotalito.
Benito Juarez National Park
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Benito Juarez National Park is a large mountainous park in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Oaxaca
- Type: State with 4,130,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Neighbors: Chiapas, Guerrero, Puebla and Veracruz
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Pacific Coast, Mexico, North America
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Latitude of centre
17° northLongitude of centre
-96.5° or 96° 30' westPopulation
4,130,000Elevation
1,644 metres (5,394 feet)Abbreviation
OAXOpenStreetMap ID
node 305626892OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3522509Wikidata ID
Q34110Oaxaca Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Oaxaca
- Afrikaans: Oaxaca
- Albanian: Oaxaca
- Amharic: Oaxaca
- Amharic: ኦአሻቻ
- Amharic: ወሓካ
- Arabic: Oaxaca
- Arabic: ولاية أواكساكا
- Arabic: ولاية اواكساكا
- Arabic: ولاية واهاكا
- Arabic: ولايه اواكساكا
- Aragonese: Estato de Oaxaca
- Aragonese: Oaxaca
- Armenian: Oaxaca
- Armenian: Օախակա
- Asturian: Oaxaca
- Aymara: Oaxaca
- Azerbaijani: Oaxaka
- Basque: Oaxaca
- Belarusian: Oaxaca
- Belarusian: Аахака
- Belarusian: Оахака
- Belarusian: Штат Аахака
- Bengali: ওয়াহাকা
- Bishnupriya: Oaxaca
- Bishnupriya: ওআজাচা
- Breton: Oaxaca
- Bulgarian: Оахака
- Burmese: Oaxaca
- Burmese: အိုအေဂျေစီအ
- Catalan: Estat d'Oaxaca
- Catalan: Estat de Oaxaca
- Catalan: Estat d’Oaxaca
- Catalan: Oaxaca
- Cebuano: Estado de Oaxaca
- Chavacano: Oaxaca
- Chechen: Оахака (штат)
- Chechen: Оахака
- Cherokee: Oaxaca
- Cherokee: ᎣᎠᏍᎠᏂ
- Cherokee: ᏩᎭᎧ
- Cheyenne: Oaxaca
- Chinese: Oaxaca
- Chinese: Oaxaca Chiu
- Chinese: 奧亞沙加州
- Chinese: 瓦哈卡州
- Chinese: 瓦哈卡市
- Cornish: Oaxaca
- Croatian: Oaxaca
- Czech: Oaxaca
- Danish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
- Danish: Oaxaca
- Dhivehi: Oaxaca
- Dhivehi: މެއޭކްއޭކްއޭ
- Dutch: Oaxaca
- Dzongkha: Oaxaca
- Dzongkha: གའཀར།
- Egyptian Arabic: Oaxaca
- Egyptian Arabic: أواكساكا
- Egyptian Arabic: واخاكا
- English: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
- English: Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca
- English: Huāxyacac
- English: MX-OAX
- Esperanto: Oaxaca
- Esperanto: Oaĥako
- Esperanto: Oaŝako
- Estonian: Oaxaca osariik
- Finnish: Oaxaca
- French: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
- French: MX-OAX
- French: Oaxaca
- French: etat d'Oaxaca
- French: etat d’Oaxaca
- French: état de Oaxaca
- French: état de l'Oaxaca
- French: état d’Oaxaca
- Galician: EEstado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
- Galician: Estado de Oaxaca
- Galician: Oaxaca
- Georgian: Oaxaca
- Georgian: ოახაკა
- German: Huāxyacac
- German: MX-OAX
- German: Oaxaca
- Greek: Oaxaca
- Greek: Οαχάκα
- Guarani: Oaxaca
- Gujarati: ઓક્સાકા
- Hebrew: Oaxaca
- Hebrew: אואחאקה
- Hebrew: ואחאקה
- Hindi: Oaxaca
- Hindi: ओक्साका
- Hindi: वाहाका
- Hungarian: Oaxaca
- Icelandic: Oaxaca (fylki)
- Icelandic: Oaxaca
- Iloko: Oaxaca
- Indonesian: Oaxaca
- Interlingua: Oaxaca
- Interlingua: Stato Oaxaca
- Inuktitut: Oaxaca
- Inuktitut: ᓯᐊᙳᓰᖂ
- Irish: Oaxaca
- Italian: Oaxaca
- Japanese: Oaxaca
- Japanese: オアハカ州
- Kannada: ಓಕ್ಸಾಕ
- Korean: 오아하카주
- Ladino: Oaxaca
- Lao: Oaxaca
- Latin: Guaxaca
- Latin: Oaxaca
- Latvian: Oahaka
- Lithuanian: Oachaka
- Lithuanian: Oachakos valstija
- Lithuanian: Oašaka
- Lithuanian: Oašakos valstija
- Macedonian: Оахака
- Malagasy: Oaxaca
- Malay: Oaxaca
- Malayalam: Oaxaca
- Malayalam: ഓഅക്ഷക
- Malayalam: വഹാക്ക
- Marathi: Oaxaca
- Marathi: ओवाहाका
- Marathi: वाशाका
- Marathi: वाहाका
- Mazanderani: Oaxaca
- Mazanderani: اوآخاکا
- Min Nan Chinese: Oaxaca
- Mongolian: Oахака
- Mongolian: Вахака
- Mongolian: Оахака
- Northern Frisian: Oaxaca (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Oaxaca
- Norwegian: Oaxaca
- Norwegian Bokmål: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
- Norwegian Bokmål: Oaxaca
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Delstaten Oaxaca
- Occitan (post 1500): Oaxaca (estat)
- Occitan (post 1500): Oaxaca
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): Oaxaca
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܘܠܐܗܘ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܘܐܟܐܩܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Huāxyacac
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): MX-OAX
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Oaxaca
- Ossetian: Oaxaca
- Ossetian: Оахакæ
- Ossetian: Оахака
- Pampanga: Oaxaca
- Panjabi: Oaxaca
- Panjabi: ਵਾਹਾਕਾ
- Persian: Oaxaca
- Persian: اوآخاکا
- Persian: اواخاکا
- Persian: اوکساکا
- Piemontese: Oaxaca
- Polish: Oaxaca
- Portuguese: Estado de Oaxaca
- Portuguese: Oaxaca
- Quechua: Oaxaca
- Quechua: Oaxaca suyu
- Quechua: Oaxaka
- Romanian: Oaxaca
- Romansh: Oaxaca
- Russian: Оахака
- Sardinian: Oassaca
- Sardinian: Oaxaca
- Scots: Oaxaca
- Serbian: Estado de Oaxaca
- Serbian: Oaxaca
- Serbian: Држава Оаксака
- Serbian: Држава Оахака
- Serbian: Оаксака
- Serbian: Оахака
- Serbo-Croatian: Oahaka
- Serbo-Croatian: Oaksaka
- Serbo-Croatian: Oaxaca
- Sinhala: ඔඇක්සකා
- Slovak: Oaxaca
- Slovenian: Oaxaca
- Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca
- Spanish: Estado de Oaxaca
- Spanish: Oaxaca
- Spanish: Provincia de Antequera
- Swahili: Oaxaca
- Swedish: Oaxaca
- Swiss German: Oaxaca
- Tagalog: Oaxaca
- Tajik: Иёлати Оахака
- Tajik: Оахака
- Tamil: Oaxaca
- Tamil: ஒஅக்சாகா
- Tamil: வஃகாக்கா
- Tatar: Оахака (штат)
- Tatar: Оахака
- Telugu: ఓవక్సాకా
- Thai: Oaxaca
- Thai: รัฐวาฮากา
- Thai: รัฐโออาซากา
- Tibetan: Oaxaca
- Tibetan: གའཀ
- Tornedalen Finnish: Oaxaca
- Tosk Albanian: Oaxaca
- Turkish: Oaxaca
- Ukrainian: Оахака
- Ukrainian: Штат Оахака
- Urdu: Oaxaca
- Urdu: اوکساکا
- Urdu: واخاکا
- Uzbek: Oaksaka
- Uzbek: Oaxaca
- Venetian: Oaxaca (stato)
- Venetian: Oaxaca
- Vietnamese: Oaxaca
- Vlax Romani: Oaxaca
- Waray (Philippines): Oaxaca
- Welsh: Huāxyacac
- Welsh: MX-OAX
- Welsh: Oaxaca
- Western Frisian: Oaxaca
- Western Panjabi: Oaxaca
- Western Panjabi: اوکساکو
- Wu Chinese: Oaxaca
- Wu Chinese: 瓦哈卡
- Yiddish: Oaxaca
- Yiddish: אָאַקסאַקאַ
- Yiddish: וואכאקא
- Yue Chinese: Oaxaca
- Yue Chinese: 瓦哈卡
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