Sonsonate Department

Sonsonate is a department of 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.
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  • Type: department of El Salvador with 470,000 residents
  • Description: department of El Salvador
  • Also known as: “سونسوناتے ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “सोनसोनाते विभाग”, and “సన్సోనేట్ విభాగం”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Sonsonate Cathedral.

Church
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The Most Holy Trinity Cathedral Also Sonsonate… is situated 3½ km northwest of Sonsonate Department.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sonsonate and Sonzacate.

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is a city of 73,000 people in southwestern , near .

Town
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is a district in the Sonsonate department of . is situated 4½ km north of Sonsonate Department.

Town
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is a town and a municipality in the… is situated 6 km northeast of Sonsonate Department.

Sonsonate Department

Latitude
13.7° or 13° 42′ north
Longitude
-89.7° or 89° 42′ west
Population
470,000
Elevation
231 metres (758 feet)
Open location code
765GP72X+2X
Geo­Names ID
3583101
Wiki­data ID
Q212540
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Sonsonate Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሶንሶናተ ዲፓርትመንት”
  • Arabic: “إدارة سونسونات”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sonsonate departamenti”
  • Basque: “Sonsonate departamendua”
  • Bengali: “সোন্সোনাটে বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Departamant Sonsonate”
  • Bulgarian: “Сонсонате”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Sonsonate”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Sonsonate Department”
  • Hindi: “सोनसोनाते प्रदेश”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Departemen Sonsonate”
  • Kannada: “ಸನ್ಸೊನೇಟ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Сонсонате департаменті”
  • Kirghiz: “Сонсонате департаменти”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Sonsonate Department”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਨਸੋਨਾਤੇ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
  • Persian: “بخش سونسوناتی”
  • Polish: “Sonsonate”
  • Portuguese: “Sonsonate”
  • Pushto: “سونسونات ولایت”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Sonsonate Department”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Sonsonate”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya wa Sonsonate”
  • Swedish: “Sonsonate Department”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Сонсонате”
  • Tamil: “சோனிசோனட் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Сонсонате департаменты”
  • Telugu: “సన్సోనేట్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดซอนโซนาเต”
  • Turkish: “Sonsonate Departmanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Сонсонате”
  • Ukrainian: “Сонсонате”
  • Urdu: “سونسوناتے محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sonsonate departamenti”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Sonsonate”
  • “Centzonātl”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Piedra de Moler and Nahulingo.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Cerro Nicaragua and Cerro Alto.

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