Welcome to Colima Mexico

Colima is a state in western Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima.
Colima is a small state, sharing a border with the Mexican states of Jalisco to the north and east, and Michoacán to the south. To the west Colima borders the Pacific Ocean.
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.



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