Quezaltepeque
Quezaltepeque is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is located about 15 km from San Salvador. The word Quezaltepeque is a Nahuat word meaning "hills of quetzal." A quetzal is a bird that used to live around the area of Quezaltepeque.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 28,900 residents
- Description: district in Northern La Libertad, El Salvador
- Also known as: “Quezaltepeque, El Salvador” and “Quezaltepque”
- Address: La Libertad
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nejapa and San Matías.
Nejapa
Town
Photo: Jdklub, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nejapa is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is part of the San Salvador metropolitan area. Nejapa is situated 5 km southeast of Quezaltepeque.
San Matías
Town
San Matías is a municipality in La Libertad department of El Salvador. A small town where in around February held festive celebrations to show their love for the village and San Matías. San Matías is situated 8 km northwest of Quezaltepeque.
Joya de Ceren
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joya de Ceren is an archaeological site in Western El Salvador. It was a Mayan village that was buried under tons of lava when the nearby San Salvador Volcano erupted in 600 AD.
Quezaltepeque
Latitude
13.83373° or 13° 50′ 1″ northLongitude
-89.27085° or 89° 16′ 15″ westPopulation
28,900Elevation
443 metres (1,453 feet)United Nations Location Code
SV QUEOpen location code
765GRPMH+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 442155037OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Quezaltepeque” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كويزالتيبيك”
- Basque: “Quezaltepeque (El Salvador)”
- Basque: “Quezaltepeque”
- Catalan: “Quezaltepeque”
- Cebuano: “Quezaltepeque”
- Chinese: “Quezaltepeque”
- Chinese: “克薩爾特佩克”
- Danish: “Quezaltepeque”
- Dutch: “Quezaltepeque”
- French: “Quezaltepeque”
- Galician: “Quezaltepeque, O Salvador”
- German: “Quezaltepeque”
- Greek: “Κεσαλτεπέκε”
- Hebrew: “קצאלטפקה”
- Italian: “Quezaltepeque”
- Japanese: “ケサルテペケ”
- Japanese: “ケツァールテペケ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Quezaltepeque”
- Moksha: “Кэсальтэпэкэ”
- Polish: “Quezaltepeque”
- Portuguese: “Quezaltepeque”
- Russian: “Кесальтепеке”
- Spanish: “Quezaltepeque”
- Swedish: “Quezaltepeque”
- Ukrainian: “Кесальтепеке”
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