Las Nubes I
Las Nubes I is a hamlet in Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala and has an elevation of 2,297 metres. Las Nubes I is situated nearby to the hamlet Cumbre de Tuilacán, as well as near the village San Martín Chiquito.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 San Martín Sacatepéquez and Concepción Chiquirichapa.
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 3½ km northeast of Las Nubes I.
Concepción Chiquirichapa
Town
Concepción Chiquirichapa is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Quetzaltenango in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, 14 kilometers west of the departmental capital of Quetzaltenango, and 214 kilometers west of the capital Guatemala City. Concepción Chiquirichapa is situated 7 km northeast of Las Nubes I.
San Juan Ostuncalco
Town
Photo: Ekem, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Juan Ostuncalco, is a town, with a population of 20,763, and a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala. Beside Spanish, local people speak the Mam language. San Juan Ostuncalco is situated 9 km northeast of Las Nubes I.
Las Nubes I
- Type: Hamlet
- Also known as: “Las Nubes”
- Category: locality
- Location: Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.80283° or 14° 48′ 10″ northLongitude
-91.66618° or 91° 39′ 58″ westElevation
2,297 metres (7,536 feet)Open location code
766CR83M+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 11954270803OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3593737
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In Other Languages
“Las Nubes I” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Las Nubes I”
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