Sonsonate Department
Sonsonate is a department of El Salvador in the western part of the country. The capital is Sonsonate. The department has an area of 1,226 km². Created on June 12, 1824, the El Salvador National Parliament decided on January 29, 1859, to separate the cities of Apaneca, San Pedro Puxtla, Guaymango, and Jujutla from the department and transfer these cities to the Santa Ana Department.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of El Salvador with 464,000 residents
- Description: department of El Salvador
- Also known as: “Sonsonate”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sonsonate Cathedral.
Sonsonate Cathedral
Church
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The Most Holy Trinity Cathedral Also Sonsonate Cathedral is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church located in the city of Sonsonate in the department of the same name, in the western part of the Central American country of El Salvador. Sonsonate Cathedral is situated 3½ km northwest of Sonsonate Department.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonsonate and Sonzacate.
Sonsonate
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Sonsonate is a city of 73,000 people in southwestern El Salvador, near Acajutla. Holy week is celebrated throughout Latin America, but the celebrations are particularly fervent in Sonsonate.
Sonzacate
Town
Sonzacate is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. Sonzacate is situated 4½ km north of Sonsonate Department.
Izalco
Town
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Izalco is a town and a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. Volcan Izalco is an icon of the country of El Salvador, a very young volcano on the flank of Santa Ana volcano. Izalco is situated 6 km northeast of Sonsonate Department.
Sonsonate Department
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sonsonate Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة سونسونات”
- Basque: “Sonsonate departamendua”
- Bengali: “সোন্সোনাটে বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Departamant Sonsonate”
- Bulgarian: “Сонсонате”
- Catalan: “Departament de Sonsonate”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
- Chinese: “Sonsonate Koān”
- Chinese: “松索纳特省”
- Czech: “Sonsonate”
- Danish: “Sonsonate Department”
- Dutch: “Sonsonate”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Sonsonate”
- Finnish: “Sonsonate”
- French: “Département de Sonsonate”
- French: “Sonsonate”
- Galician: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
- Georgian: “სონსონატეს დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Sonsonate”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Σονσονάτε”
- Gujarati: “સોન્સોનેટ વિભાગ”
- Hindi: “सोनसोनाते प्रदेश”
- Hindi: “सोनसोनाते विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Sonsonate megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Sonsonate”
- Interlingua: “Departimento de Sonsonate”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Sonsonate”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Sonsonate”
- Japanese: “ソンソナーテ県”
- Kannada: “ಸನ್ಸೊನೇಟ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “손소나테주”
- Ladino: “Sonsonate”
- Latvian: “Sonsonates departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Sonsonatės departamentas”
- Malay: “Sonsonate Department”
- Marathi: “सोंसोनेट विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonsonate Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Sonsonate (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Sonsonate”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonsonate department”
- Persian: “بخش سونسوناتی”
- Polish: “Sonsonate”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
- Portuguese: “Sonsonate”
- Quechua: “Sonsonate suyu”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Sonsonate”
- Russian: “Сонсонате”
- Scots: “Sonsonate Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sonsonate (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sonsonate”
- Sinhala: “සොන්සොනාටේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, එල් සැල්වදෝරය”
- Sinhala: “සොන්සොනාටේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovenian: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
- Slovenian: “Sonsonate”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
- Swedish: “Sonsonate Department”
- Tamil: “சோனிசோனட் துறை”
- Telugu: “సన్సోనేట్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “సన్సోనేట్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซอนโซนาเต”
- Turkish: “Sonsonate Departmanı”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Сонсонате”
- Ukrainian: “Сонсонате”
- Urdu: “سونسوناتے ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “سونسوناتے محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Sonsonate”
- “Centzonātl”
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