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Island of the Dolls at latitude and longitude 19 North, 99 West.

What is at 19 degrees north and 99 degrees west?  For several years I've noticed that people are coming to my web site looking for this information.  Recently more precise requests have been noted searching for "19 degrees 17 minutes 24 seconds North by 99 degrees 05 minutes 49 seconds W". I have updated this page showing both locations.

Visitors typically go to my general purpose dynamic latitude longitude finder page and then drag the map around until the wanted lat-long coordinates are showing. Then they note the name of the town or city located there.



Unfortunately the Google Javascript dynamic maps API process costs me money to provide as Google maps (and similarly Mapbox) have limits on their free usage and I have to pay after that. There is no practical way I have found to charge visitors 0.7p per visit.

Anyway here is my answer - a less expensive Google non-interactive static maps version costing me 0.2p per visit. I've tried Open Street Map as an alternative but they did not provide sufficient detail. Cost at 0.2p per visit is not too bad unless thousands of visitors come, in which case I will stop this and try to find a free map source.

Tlainepantla is a town in Mexico near 19N, 99W. Exact lat / long decimal degree coordinates of the centre of the map below are 19.008866 North and -98.996633 West or 19 deg 0 Minutes 31.9 seconds North, and 98 degrees, 59 minutes,  47.9 second West.

Map of Tlalnepantla at 19 degrees north and 99 degrees west
Map showing Tlalnepantla at 19.009 degrees north and 98.997 degrees west

May 2023:  Here is another (probably the correct) answer based on the more precise lat/long coordinates above. Exact lat / long decimal degree coordinates of the centre of the satellite images below are 19 deg, 17 min, 24 sec North and 99 deg, 05 min, 49 sec West (19.29 North and -99.0969444 West)

Map of Tlalnepantla at 19 degrees north and 99 degrees west
This satellite view image shows La Isla de la Muñecas (Island of the Dolls) in Mexico City. 19deg, 17min, 24sec North. 99deg, 5min, 49sec West.

The Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls) is a lagoon in Mexico City. The island is filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls. I have no idea why there is so much interest. If you know please tell me and I will add the story here. email me at  eric@satsig.net. I've been told that visits to this page may be coming from people playing a mystery computer game called "Big Fish Games".

Try a Google search for "Isla de las Muñecas" and select "Images" !

More about Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls) https://isladelasmunecas.com/

More about Big Fish Games https://www.bigfishgames.com/us/en.html


Page started 24 Mar 2019 HTML5, updated 6 March 2022, 28 July 2023.

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