Orizaba, Mexico

Orizaba is located in Mexico. Search, find, choose and compare our list of luxury five star Orizaba, Mexico, resorts, comfortable four star Orizaba, Mexico, hotels, clean three star Orizaba, Mexico, lodges, convenient two star Orizaba, Mexico, inns, and budget one star Orizaba, Mexico, motels to find rooms available for lodging accommodations in Orizaba, Mexico. Book a Mexican hotel room and make reservations in Orizaba, Mexico.

Orizaba is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located 20 km west of its sister city Córdoba, and is adjacent to Río Blanco and Ixtaczoquitlán, on Federal Highways 180 and 190.

The name Orizaba comes from a Hispanized pronunciation of the Nahuatl (Aztecan) name Ahuilizapan, which means (more or less) `place of playing waters`. The town lies at 1200 m. (4000 ft.), at the confluence of the Río Blanco with several tributaries, including the Río Orizaba, near the mouth of a large valley heading westward into the eastern Sierra Madre.

This location, at the bottom of the ascent into the mountains, is an important transition point along what has been for centuries the main trade route between Mexico City and Veracruz on the Gulf Coast. The climate is generally pleasant, though often cloudy and rainy, and the soil of the Orizaba valley is extraordinarily fertile. Overlooking the valley from the north is the Pico de Orizaba, a volcano that, at 5700 m. (18,700 ft.), is the highest mountain in Mexico and third highest in North America.

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