El Refugio
El Refugio is a district in the Ahuachapán Department of El Salvador. El Refugio has about 9,830 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 9,830 residents
- Description: district in Northern Ahuachapán, El Salvador
- Also known as: “El Refugio, Ahuachapán” and “El Refugio, El Salvador”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Casa Blanca.
Casa Blanca
Archaeological site
Photo: Arkhael, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Casa Blanca is a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site in the Chalchuapa archaeological zone in the department of Santa Ana, El Salvador. Its name comes from the coffee plantation that operated in the current archeological park. Casa Blanca is situated 4 km northeast of El Refugio.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chalchuapa and Tazumal.
Chalchuapa
Town
Photo: YessicaGuerra19, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chalchuapa is a town and a municipality located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. The city of Chalchuapa is in a wide valley at 650 meters above sea level, and watered by the Pampe River. Chalchuapa is situated 3 km east of El Refugio.
Tazumal
Photo: Orfc28, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tazumal is an archaeological site in Western El Salvador. It is a fairly small, but well maintained and easily visited site for what was once a major city-state.
Atiquizaya
Town
Atiquizaya is a district in the Ahuachapán Department of El Salvador. It covers an area of 66.64 km2 and as of 2007 has a population of 33,587. Atiquizaya is situated 5 km west of El Refugio.
El Refugio
Latitude
13.97501° or 13° 58′ 30″ northLongitude
-89.70599° or 89° 42′ 22″ westPopulation
9,830Elevation
747 metres (2,451 feet)Open location code
765GX7GV+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1352910045OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3586052Wikidata ID
Q2779429
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“El Refugio” goes by many names.
- Basque: “El Refugio (El Salvador)”
- Basque: “El Refugio”
- Catalan: “El Refugio”
- Cebuano: “El Refugio”
- Chinese: “El Refugio”
- Chinese: “埃爾雷希奧”
- Dutch: “El Refugio”
- French: “El Refugio, Ahuachapán”
- French: “El Refugio”
- Galician: “El Refugio”
- Italian: “El Refugio”
- Japanese: “エル・レフーヒ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Refugio (Ahuachapán)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Refugio”
- Norwegian: “El Refugio”
- Portuguese: “El Refugio”
- Spanish: “El Refugio (Ahuachapán)”
- Spanish: “El Refugio”
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