Purulhá
Purulhá is a town and municipality in the Baja Verapaz department of Guatemala. It is situated at 1,570 m above sea level. The municipality covers an area of 536 km² and the population was 56,822 at the 2018 census. The annual festival is June 10-June 13.- Type: Town with 5,370 residents
- Description: municipality of Alta Verapaz Department, Guatemala
- Also known as: “Purulha”
Purulhá
- Categories: municipality of Guatemala and locality
- Location: Municipio de Purulhá, Baja Verapaz Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
15.23633° or 15° 14′ 11″ northLongitude
-90.23569° or 90° 14′ 9″ westPopulation
5,370Elevation
1,560 metres (5,118 feet)United Nations Location Code
GT PUROpen location code
767F6QP7+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1039836634OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Purulhá” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Purulhá”
- Cebuano: “Purulhá”
- Chinese: “Purulhá”
- Chinese: “普魯爾阿”
- Dutch: “Purulhá”
- French: “Purulhá”
- German: “Purulhá”
- Italian: “Purulhá”
- Japanese: “プルジャ”
- Japanese: “プルラ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Purulhá”
- Polish: “Purulhá”
- Portuguese: “Purulhá”
- Spanish: “Purulha”
- Spanish: “Purulhá”
- Swedish: “Municipio de Purulhá”
- Swedish: “Purulhá”
- Uzbek: “Purulha”
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