Huehuetenango Department
Huehuetenango is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. It is located in the western highlands and shares the borders with the Mexican state of Chiapas in the north and west; with El Quiché in the east, and Totonicapán, Quetzaltenango and San Marcos in the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: department of Guatemala with 1,170,000 residents
- Description: department of Guatemala
- Also known as: “Huehuetenango”
- Neighbors: Chiapas
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Rafael La Independencia.
San Rafael La Independencia
Town
San Rafael La Independencia is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango. Their native language is akateko. San Rafael La Independencia is situated 7 km northeast of Huehuetenango Department.
Huehuetenango Department
- Location: Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Huehuetenango Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة هيويتينانغو”
- Basque: “Huehuetenango”
- Bengali: “ওয়েওয়েতেনানগো বিভাগ”
- Bosnian: “Huehuetenango”
- Breton: “Departamant Huehuetenango”
- Bulgarian: “Уеуетенанго”
- Catalan: “departament de Huehuetenango”
- Catalan: “Departament de Huehuetenango”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Huehuetenango”
- Chinese: “Huehuetenango Koān”
- Chinese: “韋韋特南戈省”
- Chinese: “韦韦特南戈省”
- Danish: “Huehuetenango Department”
- Dutch: “Huehuetenango”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Huehuetenango”
- Esperanto: “Huehuetenango”
- Finnish: “Huehuetenangon departmentti”
- French: “Departement de Huehuetenango”
- French: “Département de Huehuetenango”
- French: “Huehuetenango”
- Galician: “Departamento de Huehuetenango”
- Georgian: “უეუეტენანგოს დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Huehuetenango”
- German: “GT-HU”
- German: “Huehuetenango”
- Greek: “Χουεχουετενάνγκο”
- Gujarati: “હુએહુએટેનાંગો વિભાગ”
- Hindi: “ह्यूएहुतेनेंगो विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Huehuetenango megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Huehuetenango”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Huehuetenango”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Huehuetenango”
- Italian: “Huehuetenango”
- Japanese: “ウェウェテナンゴ県”
- Japanese: “ウエウエテナンゴ県”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯುಹೆಟೆನಾಂಗೊ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “우에우에테낭고주”
- Ladino: “Huehuetenango”
- Latvian: “Venetenango departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Huehuetenango departamentas”
- Malay: “Huehuetenango Department”
- Marathi: “ह्वेहुतेनेंगो विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Huehuetenango Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Huehuetenango (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Huehuetenango”
- Northern Sami: “Huehuetenango”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Huehuetenango”
- Norwegian: “Huehuetenango”
- Persian: “بخش هووهتنانگو”
- Polish: “Huehuetenango”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Huehuetenango”
- Portuguese: “Huehuetenango”
- Quechua: “Huehuetenango suyu”
- Russian: “Гуэгуэтенанго”
- Russian: “Уэуэтенанго”
- Scots: “Huehuetenango Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Huehuetenango (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Huehuetenango”
- Sinhala: “හියුහියුටෙනන්ගෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “Huehuetenango”
- Slovenian: “Departamento Huehuetenango”
- Slovenian: “Departma Huehuetenango”
- Slovenian: “GT-HU”
- Slovenian: “Huehuetenango”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Huehuetenango”
- Spanish: “Huehuetenango”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Huehuetenango”
- Tamil: “ஹஎதுஎட்டெனங்கோ துறை”
- Telugu: “హుయెహుయెటెనాంగో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “హుయెహుయెటెనాంగో విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเวเวเตนังโก”
- Turkish: “Huehuetenango Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Huehuetenango”
- Ukrainian: “Уеуетенанго”
- Urdu: “ہویہویتینانگو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “ہویہویتینانگو محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Huehuetenango”
- Waray (Philippines): “Huehuetenango (departamento)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Huehuetenango”
- “Āhuēhuētēnanco”
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Notable Places Nearby
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