Lake Ilopango
Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills an 8 by 11 km: 70.5 km2 volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Lake
- Description: Crater lake in El Salvador
- Also known as: “Laguna de Ilapango”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ilopango.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Miguel Tepezontes and Ilopango.
San Miguel Tepezontes
Town
San Miguel Tepezontes is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador. It is located in the countryside 25 minutes east of the capital city, San Salvador, and 40 minutes from the International Airport at Comalapa. San Miguel Tepezontes is situated 6 km southeast of Lake Ilopango.
Ilopango
Town
Ilopango is a town and district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is a few miles east of the nation's capital, San Salvador and part of the San Salvador metropolitan area. Ilopango is situated 7 km west of Lake Ilopango.
San Martín
Town
San Martín is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. According to the 2007 Population and Housing Census, it has 72,758 inhabitants. San Martín is situated 7 km north of Lake Ilopango.
Lake Ilopango
- Category: body of water
- Location: El Salvador, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.67306° or 13° 40′ 23″ north
Longitude
-89.04694° or 89° 2′ 49″ west
Elevation
442 metres (1,450 feet)
Open location code
765GMXF3+66
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Ilopango from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Ilopango” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة إيلوبانغو”
- Basque: “Ilopangoko aintzira”
- Catalan: “llac de l’Ilopango”
- Catalan: “Llac Ilopango”
- Cebuano: “Lago de Ilopango”
- Chinese: “伊洛潘戈湖”
- Czech: “Ilopango”
- Dutch: “Lago de Ilopango”
- French: “lac Ilopango”
- French: “Lac Ilopango”
- German: “Ilopango-See”
- Hungarian: “Ilopango-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Ilopango”
- Japanese: “イロパンゴ湖”
- Latvian: “Ilopango ezers”
- Lithuanian: “Ilopangas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lago de Ilopango”
- Norwegian: “Ilopango”
- Persian: “دریاچه ایلوپانگو”
- Polish: “Ilopango”
- Portuguese: “Lago Ilopango”
- Russian: “Илопанго”
- Serbian: “Илопанго (језеро)”
- Serbian: “Илопанго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ilopango (jezero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ilopango”
- Slovak: “Lago de Ilopango”
- Slovenian: “Ilopango (jezero)”
- Slovenian: “Ilopango”
- Spanish: “Lago de Ilopango”
- Swedish: “Ilopangosjön”
- Turkish: “İlopango Gölü”
- Welsh: “Llyn Ilopango”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as El Sauce and Dolores Apulo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cerros Quemados and Isla Portillón.
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