Sacatepéquez Department
Sacatepéquez is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The name comes from Sacatepéquez, a city from November 21, 1542, until July 29, 1773, when it was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemala earthquake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of Guatemala with 330,000 residents
- Description: department in Guatemala
- Also known as: “Departamento de Sacatepequez”, “Sacatepéquez”, and “Zacatepēc”
Places of Interest
Highlights include iglesia de La Merced and Iglesia de San Francisco.
iglesia de La Merced
Church
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The Church and Convent of La Merced is a Catholic church located in the city of Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala. The architect Juan de Dios Estrada was in charge of its construction from 1749. The church was inaugurated in 1767.
Iglesia de San Francisco
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
San Francisco el Grande is a church in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala and one of the sanctuaries most frequented by the local population because of the shrine of Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur. Iglesia de San Francisco is situated 4 km southeast of Sacatepéquez Department.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Antigua Guatemala.
Antigua Guatemala
La Antigua Guatemala is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is perhaps Guatemala's most popular tourist destination. It was the colonial Spanish capital of Central America.
Sacatepéquez Department
- Location: Guatemala, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Sacatepéquez Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة ساكاتيبيكيز”
- Armenian: “Սակատեպեկես”
- Basque: “Sacatepéquez”
- Bengali: “সাকাতেপেকুয়েজ বিভাগ”
- Bosnian: “Sacatepéquez”
- Breton: “Departamant Sacatepéquez”
- Bulgarian: “Сакатепекес”
- Catalan: “Sacatepéquez”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Sacatepéquez”
- Chinese: “Sacatepéquez Koān”
- Chinese: “萨卡特佩克斯省”
- Chinese: “薩卡特佩克斯省”
- Croatian: “Razgovor:Sacatepéquez”
- Danish: “Sacatepéquez Department”
- Dutch: “Sacatepéquez”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Sakatepekezo”
- Esperanto: “Sakatepekezo”
- Finnish: “Sacatepéquezin departementti”
- French: “Département de Sacatepéquez”
- French: “Sacatepéquez”
- Galician: “Departamento de Sacatepéquez”
- Georgian: “საკატეპეკესის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Sacatepéquez”
- German: “Sacatepequez”
- German: “Sacatepéquez”
- Greek: “Σακατεπέκεζ”
- Gujarati: “સાકાટેપેક્વિઝ વિભાગ”
- Hindi: “सकाटेपेकेज़”
- Hungarian: “Sacatepéquez megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Sacatepéquez”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Sacatepéquez”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Sacatepéquez”
- Japanese: “サカテペケス県”
- Kannada: “ಸಕೆಟೆಪೆಕ್ವೆಜ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “사카테페케스주”
- Ladino: “Sacatepéquez”
- Latvian: “Sakatepekeso departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Sakatepekeso departamentas”
- Malay: “Sacatepequez Department”
- Maltese: “Dipartiment ta‘ Sacatepéquez”
- Maltese: “Sacatepéquez”
- Marathi: “सिक्वेटेपेक्यूझ विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sacatepéquez Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Sacatepéquez (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Sacatepéquez”
- Northern Sami: “Sacatepéquez”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sacatepéquez”
- Norwegian: “Sacatepéquez”
- Persian: “استان ساکاتپکس”
- Persian: “شهرستان ساکاتپکس”
- Polish: “Sacatepéquez”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Sacatepéquez”
- Portuguese: “Sacatepéquez”
- Quechua: “Sacatepequez suyu”
- Russian: “Сакатепекес”
- Scots: “Sacatepéquez Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sacatepéquez (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sacatepéquez”
- Sinhala: “සකටෙපේක්වෙස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “Sacatepéquez”
- Slovenian: “Departamento de Sacatepéquez”
- Slovenian: “Departma Sacatepéquez”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Sacatepéquez”
- Spanish: “Sacatepéquez”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Sacatepéquez”
- Swedish: “Sacatepéquez”
- Tamil: “சாக்காடேபெக்ஸ் துறை”
- Telugu: “సాకోజెపకీస్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซากาเตเปเกซ”
- Turkish: “Sacatepeques District”
- Turkish: “Sacatepéquez Departmanı”
- Ukrainian: “Сакатепекес”
- Urdu: “ساکاتیپیکیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “ساکاتیپیکیس محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Sacatepéquez”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sacatepéquez”
- “Sakatepek Tlatilantli”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Las Victorias and Pastores.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cerro El Manzanillo and Cerro El Niño.
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