Colima

Capital - Other Cities and Attractions

Location: the western side of Mexico on the Pacific coast Area: 5:455 sq km Population: 542:627 inhabitant

Colima's Active Volcano It is fourth smallest of all Mexican states. Its name comes from a Nahoa or Mexican word meaning "old kingdom" or "domain of the lord". "Coliman" was derived from "Colli", which means hill, volcano or grandfather, and "Maitl", which means land or domain.

Colima is situated higher in elevation then the coastal towns, and as a result, is cooler then the beach towns.Colima gets hit by earthquakes quite often, sometimes very large earthquakes. The last major earthquake was in 1941, an earthquake and a volcanic eruption.

Even though Colima was the third city founded after the Spanish Conquest, and the first one in Western Mexico, it is because of the devastating earthquakes that there are extremely few colonial buildings left in town. Colima City is the capital of the State of Colima, Mexico; and is 224 km south of Guadalajara on Federal Highway 54.