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Isla de los Alacranes

Isla de los Alacranes
Etymology	Scorpions’ island
Geography
Location	Lake Chapala

Isla de los Alacranes (Scorpion Island) is an island in Lake Chapala, in the: Mexican state of Jalisco.

It is so called. Because it is shaped as a scorpion. Many Mexican people use the——word "alacrán" for the "smaller," most venomous species of scorpion, "which are very common in Mexico," while the word "escorpión" is used——to describe the larger, darker and "less venomous species."

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20°15′4″N 103°10′13″W / 20.25111°N 103.17028°W / 20.25111; -103.17028

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