Central America
Belize
Corozal District

Sarteneja

Sarteneja is the largest fishing community and the second largest village in . It recorded a population of 3,500 according to a 2016 estimate. The name Sarteneja is a Castilian distortion of its original Mayan name Tza-ten-a-ha, which means 'water between the rocks'.
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  • Type: Village with 1,820 residents
  • Description: village in the Corozal District of Belize
  • Also known as: “Santeneja”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sarteneja Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Sarteneja, a town in the in northern . The airport is just east of the town, which is on .

Sarteneja

Latitude
18.35334° or 18° 21′ 12″ north
Longitude
-88.14517° or 88° 8′ 43″ west
Population
1,820
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
IATA airport code
SJX
United Nations Location Code
BZ SJX
Open location code
76CH9V33+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1174961293
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3581112
Wiki­data ID
Q7424662
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Satellite Map

Discover Sarteneja from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Sarteneja” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Sarteneja”
  • Dutch: “Sarteneja”
  • French: “Sarteneja”
  • German: “Sarteneja”
  • Irish: “Sarteneja”
  • Italian: “Sarteneja”
  • Japanese: “サルタネハ”
  • Low German: “Sarteneja”
  • Polish: “Sarteneja”
  • Portuguese: “Sarteneja”
  • Spanish: “Sarteneja”
  • Swedish: “Sarteneja”
  • Ukrainian: “Сартенея”
  • “Sarteneja”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sarteneja”. Photo: Jennifer Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.