San Marcos Department
San Marcos is a department in southwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean and along the western Guatemala-Mexico border. The department's capital is the city of San Marcos.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of Guatemala with 1,030,000 residents
- Description: department of Guatemala
- Also known as: “San Marcos”
- Neighbors: Chiapas
Places of Interest
Highlights include Volcán Tajumulco.
Volcán Tajumulco
Volcano
Volcán Tajumulco is a large stratovolcano in the department of San Marcos in western Guatemala. It is the highest mountain in Central America at 4,203 metres. Volcán Tajumulco is situated 5 km north of San Marcos Department.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta.
San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta is a busy agricultural town in San Marcos department of western Guatemala, set amongst coffee plantations.
San Marcos Department
- Location: Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“San Marcos Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة سان ماركوس”
- Armenian: “Սան Մարկոս”
- Basque: “San Marcos”
- Bengali: “সান মার্কো বিভাগ”
- Bosnian: “San Marcos”
- Breton: “Departamant San Marcos”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Маркос”
- Catalan: “departament de San Marcos”
- Catalan: “Departament de San Marcos”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de San Marcos”
- Chinese: “San Marcos Koān”
- Chinese: “圣马科斯省”
- Chinese: “聖馬科斯省”
- Danish: “San Marcos Department”
- Dutch: “San Marcos”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Sankta Marko”
- Esperanto: “Sankta Marko”
- Finnish: “San Marcosin departmentti”
- French: “Departement de San Marcos”
- French: “Département de San Marcos”
- French: “San Marcos”
- Galician: “Departamento de San Marcos”
- Georgian: “სან-მარკოსის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento San Marcos”
- German: “GT-SM”
- German: “San Marcos”
- Greek: “Σαν Μάρκος”
- Gujarati: “સેન માર્કોસ વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז סן מרקוס”
- Hindi: “सैन मार्कोस विभाग”
- Hungarian: “San Marcos megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen San Marcos”
- Italian: “dipartimento di San Marcos”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di San Marcos”
- Japanese: “サン・マルコス県”
- Japanese: “サンマルコス県”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಮಾರ್ಕೊಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “산마르코스주”
- Ladino: “San Marcos”
- Latvian: “Sanmarkosas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “San Markoso departamentas”
- Malay: “San Marcos Department”
- Marathi: “सॅन मार्कोस विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “San Marcos Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “San Marcos (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “San Marcos”
- Northern Sami: “San Marcos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Marcos (departement)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Marcos”
- Norwegian: “San Marcos”
- Persian: “دپارتمان سن مارکوس”
- Persian: “شهرستان سان مارکوس”
- Polish: “San Marcos”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de San Marcos”
- Portuguese: “San Marcos”
- Quechua: “San Marcos suyu”
- Russian: “Сан-Маркос”
- Scots: “San Marcos Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Marcos (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Marcos”
- Sinhala: “සැන් මාර්කෝස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “San Marcos”
- Slovenian: “Departamento San Marcos”
- Slovenian: “Departma San Marcos”
- Slovenian: “GT-SM”
- Spanish: “Departamento de San Marcos”
- Spanish: “San Marcos”
- Swedish: “Departamento de San Marcos”
- Swedish: “San Marcos”
- Tamil: “சான் மார்கோஸ் துறை”
- Telugu: “సాన్ మార్కోస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “సాన్ మార్కోస్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซานมาร์โกส”
- Turkish: “San Marcos Departmanı”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Маркос”
- Urdu: “سان مارکوس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “سان مارکوس محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “San Marcos”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Marcos (departamento ha Guatemala)”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Marcos”
- “San Marcos”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Zacalá and Villa Nueva.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tojoj Comunidad Agraria and Comunidad Agraria La Bolsa.
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