Ahuachapán Department

Ahuachapán is a department of in the west of the country. The capital is . In the south, it has the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Range and the Cerro Grande de .
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  • Type: electoral unit with 333,000 residents
  • Description: department of El Salvador
  • Also known as: Ahuachapán” and “Departamento de Ahuachapan

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tacuba.

Town
is a district in the Ahuachapán Department of . is situated 4 km northwest of Ahuachapán Department.

Ahuachapán Department

Latitude
13.8667° or 13° 52′ north
Longitude
-89.9167° or 89° 55′ west
Population
333,000
Elevation
969 metres (3,179 feet)
Open location code
765GV38M+M8
Geo­Names ID
3587425
Wiki­data ID
Q572993
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ahuachapán Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: إدارة أهواشابان
  • Armenian: Աուչապան
  • Basque: Ahuachapán departamendua
  • Bengali: আহোয়াচাপান বিভাগ
  • Breton: Departamant Ahuachapán
  • Bulgarian: Ауачапан
  • Catalan: departament d’Ahuachapán
  • Catalan: Departament d’Ahuachapán
  • Cebuano: Departamento de Ahuachapán
  • Chinese: Ahuachapán Koān
  • Chinese: 阿瓦查潘省
  • Croatian: Ahuachapán (departman)
  • Croatian: Ahuachapán
  • Czech: Ahuachapán
  • Danish: Ahuachapán Department
  • Dutch: Ahuachapán
  • Esperanto: Departemento Ahuachapán
  • Finnish: Ahuachapánin departmentti
  • French: Ahuachapán
  • French: Département d’Ahuachapán
  • Galician: Departamento de Ahuachapán
  • Georgian: აუაჩაპანის დეპარტამენტი
  • German: Departamento Ahuachapán
  • Greek: Διαμέρισμα Αουατσαπάν
  • Gujarati: આહુચપન વિભાગ
  • Hindi: अहुअछापान प्रदेश
  • Hindi: अहुअछापान
  • Hindi: अहुचापान विभाग
  • Hungarian: Ahuachapán megye
  • Indonesian: Departemen Ahuachapán
  • Interlingua: Departimento de Ahuachapán
  • Italian: dipartimento di Ahuachapán
  • Italian: Dipartimento di Ahuachapán
  • Japanese: アワチャパン県
  • Kannada: ಅಹುಚಪಾನ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ
  • Korean: 아우아차판주
  • Ladino: Ahuachapán
  • Latvian: Avačapanas departaments
  • Lithuanian: Ahuačapano departamentas
  • Lithuanian: Auačapano departamentas
  • Malay: Ahuachapan Department
  • Marathi: अहुचापान विभाग
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ahuachapán Koān
  • Northern Frisian: Ahuachapán (Department)
  • Northern Frisian: Ahuachapán
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ahuachapán
  • Persian: بخش اهواچوپان
  • Polish: Ahuachapán
  • Portuguese: Ahuachapán
  • Portuguese: Departamento de Ahuachapán
  • Quechua: Ahuachapán suyu
  • Romanian: Departamentul Ahuachapán
  • Russian: Ауачапан
  • Scots: Ahuachapán Depairtment
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ahuachapán (departman)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ahuachapán
  • Sinhala: අහුවාචපාන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, එල් සැල්වදෝරය
  • Sinhala: අහුවාචපාන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව
  • Spanish: Ahuachapán
  • Spanish: Departamento de Ahuachapán
  • Swedish: Ahuachapán
  • Tamil: குச்சாபன் துறை
  • Telugu: అహూచాపన్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్
  • Telugu: అహూచాపన్ విభాగం
  • Thai: จังหวัดอาวาชาปัน
  • Turkish: Ahuachpan Departmanı
  • Ukrainian: Ауачапан
  • Ukrainian: Регіон Ауачапан
  • Urdu: اہواشاپان ڈیپارٹمنٹ
  • Urdu: اہواشاپان محکمہ
  • Vietnamese: Khu vực hành chính Ahuachapán
  • Āhuachāmpan

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