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Mazatlan

Definition: Mazatlan

Mazatlan

Noun

1. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean; tourist center.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Mazatlan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Commercial Usage: Mazatlan

DomainTitle

Books

  • Moon Handbooks: Pacific Mexico 5 Ed: Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, Oaxac, Guadalajara, and Mazatlan (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mazatlan

Photos:
Mazatlan

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Photo Album: Mazatlan

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Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Eelgrass Isopod, Idotea resecata, occurs from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Mazatlan, Mexico, on Macrocystis or eelgrass (Zostera sp.), which it eats. The body is brown when living on Macrocystis and green when living on eelgrass.Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mazatlan

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Mexico

It is the country's foremost fisheries center, and the port of Mazatlan is also a tourist resort known for its sports fishing. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

In November gunmen shot and killed two federal judges in Mazatlan, Sinaloa state. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Cities: Mazatlan


1. Mazatlan , Mexico
Location: 23.13 North,106.25 West
Population (2000 estimate): 311250
Time Zone: -6 GMT
Country: Mexico

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mazatlan

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  mazatlan

1,315

  map of mazatlan mexico

19

  mazatlan mexico

746

  hoteles de mazatlan

17

  hotel and mazatlan

196

  torres mazatlan

17

  mazatlan fishing

54

  mazatlan resort

17

  hoteles mazatlan

46

  mazatlan mx

15

  hoteles en mazatlan

46

  mazatlan vacation rental

15

  mazatlan map

45

  mazatlan vacation package

14

  pueblo bonito mazatlan

44

  hotel in mazatlan

14

  hotel playa mazatlan

40

  hotel mazatlan mexico

13

  mazatlan sport fishing

37

  fishing mazatlan report

13

  mazatlan real estate

36

  mazatlan restaurant

12

  mazatlan inn

34

  mazatlan beach

11

  mazatlan sinaloa

34

  airline alaska discount hotel mazatlan mexico

10

  travel mazatlan

31

  mazatlan airport

10

  el cid mazatlan

28

  mazatlan rental

9

  mazatlan picture

27

  all inclusive mazatlan

9

  mazatlan weather

26

  vidafel mazatlan

9

  playa mazatlan

24

  airfare to mazatlan

9

  vacation mazatlan

23

  sea garden mazatlan

9

  mazatlan mexico resort

21

  flight to mazatlan

8
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Anagrams: Mazatlan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-l-m-n-t-z"

-2 letters: ataman.

-3 letters: alant, atman, manat, manta, matza, natal, tamal.

-4 letters: alan, alma, anal, anta, atma, azan, lama, malt, mana, tala.

-5 letters: aal, ala, alt, ama, ana, ant, lam, lat, man, mat, nam, tam, tan.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-l-m-n-t-z"
 

+5 letters: animalization.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mazatlan


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 7A 61 74 6C 61 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    --..    .-    -    .-..    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01111010 01100001 01110100 01101100 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#122 &#97 &#116 &#108 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 007A 0061 0074 006C 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4767926786786780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Cities
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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