La Palma
La Palma is a district in the Chalatenango Department of El Salvador. The municipality, located in a mountainous area of the country, covers an area of 135.60 km2 and as of 2006 had an approximate population of 24,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 13,100 residents
- Description: district in Northern Chalatenango, El Salvador
- Also known as: “La Palma, El Salvador”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Ignacio and Citalá.
San Ignacio
Town
Photo: EEnriqueM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Ignacio is a district of El Salvador. It is located in the department of Chalatenango, to a distance of 87 km. from San Salvador, and to 8 km. of the international border with Honduras. San Ignacio is situated 2½ km north of La Palma.
Citalá
Town
Photo: Fernandocanales1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Citalá is a district in the Chalatenango Department of El Salvador. In Mayan-Ch’orti’ language its name means “the river of the stars”. As of 2013, it had a population of 4,270. Citalá is situated 8 km northwest of La Palma.
La Palma
Latitude
14.31732° or 14° 19′ 2″ northLongitude
-89.17048° or 89° 10′ 14″ westPopulation
13,100Elevation
1,033 metres (3,389 feet)Open location code
766G8R8H+WROpenStreetMap ID
node 3205006119OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3585098Wikidata ID
Q3821027
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“La Palma” goes by many names.
- Basque: “La Palma (El Salvador)”
- Basque: “La Palma”
- Cebuano: “La Palma”
- Chinese: “La Palma”
- Chinese: “拉帕爾馬”
- Dutch: “La Palma”
- Galician: “La Palma, O Salvador”
- Galician: “La Palma”
- Italian: “La Palma”
- Japanese: “ラ・パルマ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Palma”
- Portuguese: “La Palma”
- Spanish: “La Palma (Chalatenango)”
- Spanish: “La Palma”
- Urdu: “لا پالما، چالاٹینانگو”
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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 “La Palma”. Photo: BeatrizFortinez, CC BY-SA 3.0.