Quetzaltenango Department
Quetzaltenango is a department in the western highlands of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Quetzaltenango, the second largest city in Guatemala. The department is divided up into 24 municipalities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Guatemala with 799,000 residents
- Description: department of Guatemala
- Also known as: “Departamento de Quezaltenango”, “Quetzaltenānco”, “Quetzaltenango”, and “Quexaltenango”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chicabal Lake and Chicabal.
Chicabal Lake
Lake
Photo: MarritzN, Public domain.
Chicabal Lake is a Guatemalan lake sacred to the Mam Mayan people. The lake is located in the municipal boundary of the town of San Martín Sacatepéquez in the department of Quetzaltenango.
Chicabal
Volcano
Photo: Avalesco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chicabal is a 2,720 metres inactive volcano in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala. Its edifice has a volume of 12 km3. The volcano has a crater lake, Chicabal Lake, and is constructed within a collapse scar that may have been the consequence of a failure of a previous edifice.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colomba and San Martín Sacatepéquez.
Colomba
Town
Colomba is a town, with a population of 57,111, and a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala with an area of 214 km2 at an altitude of about 1011 metres. Colomba is situated 8 km southwest of Quetzaltenango Department.
San Martín Sacatepéquez
Town
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Martín Sacatepéquez is one of 24 municipalities in the department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. San Martín Sacatepéquez has a surface area of 100 square kilometres. San Martín Sacatepéquez is situated 9 km north of Quetzaltenango Department.
Quetzaltenango Department
- Location: Guatemala, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Quetzaltenango Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة كويتزالتينانغو”
- 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: “Quetzaltenango Koān”
- 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: “Departman Quetzaltenango”
- Croatian: “Quetzaltenango (departman)”
- Croatian: “Quetzaltenango”
- Danish: “Quetzaltenango Department”
- Dutch: “Quetzaltenango”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Ketzaltenango”
- Esperanto: “Ketzaltenango”
- Finnish: “Quetzaltenango”
- Finnish: “Quetzaltenangon departementti”
- French: “Departement de Quetzaltenango”
- French: “Département de Quetzaltenango”
- French: “Quetzaltenango Department”
- French: “Quetzaltenango”
- Galician: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
- Georgian: “კეცალტენანგოს დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Quetzaltenango”
- German: “GT-QZ”
- German: “Quetzaltenango”
- Greek: “Κουετζαλτενάνγκο”
- Gujarati: “ક્વેટઝાલ્તેનાંગો વિભાગ”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ವೆಟ್ಝಲ್ಟೆನಾಂಗೊ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- 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”
- Persian: “استان کتسالتنانگو”
- Persian: “شهرستان کویتزالتنانگو”
- Polish: “Quetzaltenango”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
- Portuguese: “Quetzaltenango”
- Quechua: “Quetzaltenango suyu”
- Russian: “Кесальтенанго”
- Russian: “Кецальтенанго”
- Scots: “Quetzaltenango Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Quetzaltenango (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Quetzaltenango”
- Sinhala: “කෙට්සල්ටේනංගෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “Quetzaltenango”
- Slovenian: “Departamento Quetzaltenango”
- Slovenian: “Departma Quetzaltenango”
- Slovenian: “GT-ZQ”
- Slovenian: “Quetzaltenango”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
- Spanish: “Quetzaltenango”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Quetzaltenango”
- Tamil: “யூதசல்டெணங்கொ துறை”
- Telugu: “క్వెట్జాల్టెనాంగో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “క్వెట్జాల్టెనాంగో విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเกตซัลเตนังโก”
- Turkish: “Quetzaltenango Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Quetzaltenango”
- Ukrainian: “Кесальтенанго”
- Urdu: “کویتسالتینانگو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “کویتسالتینانگو محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Quetzaltenango”
- Waray (Philippines): “Quetzaltenango (departamento)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Quetzaltenango”
- “Ketsaltenanko Tlatilantli”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as El Carmen Chicabal and La Unión.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Microparcelamiento Agrario Loma Linda and Cumbre de Tuilacán.
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