Quetzaltenango Department

Quetzaltenango is a department in the western of . The capital is the city of , the second largest city in Guatemala. The department is divided up into 24 municipalities.
Wikipedia
  • Type: department of Guatemala with 799,000 residents
  • Description: department of Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Departamento de Quezaltenango”, “Departement de Quetzaltenango”, “Departma Quetzaltenango”, “Departman Quetzaltenango”, “GT-QZ”, “GT-ZQ”, “Quetzaltenānco”, “Quetzaltenango”, “Quexaltenango”, “Кецальтенанго”, “کویتسالتینانگو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, and “క్వెట్జాల్టెనాంగో విభాగం”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Chicabal Lake and Chicabal.

Lake
Photo: MarritzN, Public domain.
is a lake sacred to the Mam Mayan people.

Volcano
Photo: Avalesco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Volcano is an extinct stratovolcano and…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colomba and San Martín Sacatepéquez.

Town
is a town, with a population of 57,111, and… is situated 8 km southwest of Quetzaltenango Department.

Town
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is one of 24 municipalities in the department of Quetzaltenango, . is situated 9 km north of Quetzaltenango Department.

Quetzaltenango Department

Latitude
14.75° or 14° 45′ north
Longitude
-91.6667° or 91° 40′ west
Population
799,000
Elevation
1,523 metres (4,997 feet)
Open location code
766CQ82M+28
Geo­Names ID
3590978
Wiki­data ID
Q844502
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Quetzaltenango Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኬትዛልቴናንጎ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة كويتزالتينانغو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Basque: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Bengali: “কুয়ােটজালেনাং বিভাগ”
  • Bosnian: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Breton: “Departamant Quetzaltenango”
  • Bulgarian: “Кецалтенанго”
  • Catalan: “departament de Quetzaltenango”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Quetzaltenango”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
  • Chinese: “克察爾特南戈省”
  • Chinese: “克萨尔特南戈省”
  • Chinese: “克薩爾特南戈省”
  • Croatian: “Quetzaltenango (departman)”
  • Croatian: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Danish: “Quetzaltenango Department”
  • Dutch: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Ketzaltenango”
  • Esperanto: “Ketzaltenango”
  • Finnish: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Finnish: “Quetzaltenangon departementti”
  • French: “Département de Quetzaltenango”
  • French: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
  • Georgian: “კეცალტენანგოს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento Quetzaltenango”
  • Greek: “Κουετζαλτενάνγκο”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વેટઝાલ્તેનાંગો વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Hindi: “केत्सालतेनांगो विभाग”
  • Hindi: “क्वेटज़ाल्टेनैंगो विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Quetzaltenango megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Quetzaltenango”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Quetzaltenango”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Quetzaltenango”
  • Japanese: “ケツァルテナンゴ県”
  • Javanese: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವೆಟ್ಝಲ್ಟೆನಾಂಗೊ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Кецалтенанго”
  • Kirghiz: “Кецалтенанго”
  • Korean: “케찰테낭고주”
  • Korean: “케트살테낭고주”
  • Ladino: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Latvian: “Kesaltenango departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Kecaltenango departamentas”
  • Malay: “Quetzaltenango Department”
  • Marathi: “क्वेट्झलातेनांगो विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Quetzaltenango Koān”
  • Northern Frisian: “Quetzaltenango (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Northern Sami: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Norwegian: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Oromo: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਤਜ਼ਲਤੇਨਾਨਗੋ”
  • Persian: “استان کتسالتنانگو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کویتزالتنانگو”
  • Polish: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Portuguese: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Pushto: “کتزالتنانگو”
  • Quechua: “Quetzaltenango suyu”
  • Russian: “Кесальтенанго”
  • Scots: “Quetzaltenango Depairtment”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Quetzaltenango (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Sinhala: “කෙට්සල්ටේනංගෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovak: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento Quetzaltenango”
  • Somali: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
  • Swahili: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Swedish: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
  • Tajik: “Кецалтенанго”
  • Tamil: “யூதசல்டெணங்கொ துறை”
  • Tatar: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Telugu: “క్వెట్జాల్టెనాంగో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเกตซัลเตนังโก”
  • Turkish: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Ukrainian: “Кесальтенанго”
  • Urdu: “کویتسالتینانگو محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ketsaltenango”
  • Vietnamese: “Quetzaltenango”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Quetzaltenango (departamento)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Quetzaltenango”
  • “Ketsaltenanko Tlatilantli”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: El Carmen Chicabal and La Unión.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Microparcelamiento Agrario Loma Linda and Cumbre de Tuilacán.

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