Sipacate
Sipacate is a resort town and municipality on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, in Escuintla Department about 36 kilometres west of Puerto San José. It is promoted as a venue for surfing.- Type: Town with 7,280 residents
- Description: municipality of Escuintla Department, Guatemala
- Neighbors: Puerto San José
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Paredón.
El Paredón
Photo: Ferdinandvs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Paredón is a sleepy fishing village on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Surfers regard it as one of the best surfing beaches in Central America. Naturalists visit the lagoons and mangrove swamps along the river and in the adjacent Sipacate-Naranjo National Park to see nesting sea turtles and more than 100 species of waterfowl who nest in the protected wetlands.
Sipacate
- Categories: municipality of Guatemala and locality
- Location: La Gomera, Escuintla Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.93019° or 13° 55′ 49″ northLongitude
-91.14723° or 91° 8′ 50″ westPopulation
7,280Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
GT SPCOpen location code
765CWVJ3+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 4401753140OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Sipacate” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “锡帕卡特”
- Polish: “Sipacate”
- Spanish: “Sipacate”
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