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.
- Department of El Salvador with about 470,000 residents
- …is also known as “Sonsonate”
Places of Interest
Discover Sonsonate Cathedral.
Sonsonate Cathedral
The Most Holy Trinity Cathedral Also Sonsonate…
3½ km northwest of Sonsonate Department
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonsonate and Sonzacate.
Sonsonate
Sonsonate is a city of 73,000 people in southwestern El Salvador, near Acajutla.
Sonzacate
Sonzacate is a district in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador.
4½ km north of Sonsonate Department
Sonsonate Department
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Latitude
13.7° or 13° 42′ north
Longitude
-89.7° or 89° 42′ west
Open location code
765GP72X+2X
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Sonsonate Department” goes by many names.
ሶንሶናተ ዲፓርትመንትAmharic
إدارة سونسوناتArabic
Sonsonate departamentiAzerbaijani
Sonsonate departamenduaBasque
সোন্সোনাটে বিভাগBengali
Departamant SonsonateBreton
СонсонатеBulgarian
Departament de SonsonateCatalan
Departamento de SonsonateCebuano
松索纳特省Chinese
SonsonateCzech
Sonsonate DepartmentDanish
SonsonateDutch
Departemento SonsonateEsperanto
SonsonateFinnish
Departamento de SonsonateGalician
სონსონატეს დეპარტამენტიGeorgian
Διαμέρισμα ΣονσονάτεGreek
સોન્સોનેટ વિભાગGujarati
Sonsonate DepartmentHausa
सोनसोनाते प्रदेशHindi
सोनसोनाते विभागHindi
Sonsonate megyeHungarian
Departemen SonsonateIndonesian
Departimento de SonsonateInterlingua
Dipartimento di SonsonateItalian
ソンソナーテ県Japanese
Departemen SonsonateJavanese
ಸನ್ಸೊನೇಟ್ ಇಲಾಖೆKannada
Сонсонате департаментіKazakh
Сонсонате департаментиKirghiz
손소나테주Korean
SonsonateLadino
Sonsonates departamentsLatvian
Sonsonatės departamentasLithuanian
Sonsonate DepartmentMalay
सोंसोनेट विभागMarathi
Sonsonate KoānMin Nan Chinese
SonsonateNorthern Frisian
Sonsonate (Department)Northern Frisian
Sonsonate departmentNorwegian Bokmål
Sonsonate DepartmentOromo
ਸੋਨਸੋਨਾਤੇ ਵਿਭਾਗPanjabi
بخش سونسوناتیPersian
SonsonatePolish
سونسونات ولایتPushto
Sonsonate suyuQuechua
Departamentul SonsonateRomanian
СонсонатеRussian
Sonsonate DepairtmentScots
SonsonateSerbo-Croatian
Sonsonate (departman)Serbo-Croatian
සොන්සොනාටේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවSinhala
සොන්සොනාටේ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, එල් සැල්වදෝරයSinhala
Departamento de SonsonateSlovenian
SonsonateSlovenian
Sonsonate DepartmentSomali
Wilaya wa SonsonateSwahili
Sonsonate DepartmentSwedish
Вилояти СонсонатеTajik
சோனிசோனட் துறைTamil
Сонсонате департаментыTatar
సన్సోనేట్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్Telugu
సన్సోనేట్ విభాగంTelugu
จังหวัดซอนโซนาเตThai
Sonsonate DepartmanıTurkish
Регіон СонсонатеUkrainian
СонсонатеUkrainian
سونسوناتے ڈیپارٹمنٹUrdu
سونسوناتے محکمہUrdu
Sonsonate departamentiUzbek
Khu vực hành chính SonsonateVietnamese
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