Chicabal Lake
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: body of water
- Also known as: “Laguna Chicabal” and “Laguna Chuicabal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chicabal.
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.
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 8 km northeast of Chicabal Lake.
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 10 km north of Chicabal Lake.
Chicabal Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.7875° or 14° 47′ 15″ northLongitude
-91.65636° or 91° 39′ 23″ westElevation
2,725 metres (8,940 feet)Open location code
766CQ8QV+2FOpenStreetMap ID
way 263100320OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
3598480Wikidata ID
Q3394893
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Chicabal Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاغونا شيكابال”
- Cebuano: “Laguneta Chiquibal”
- Chinese: “奇卡巴尔潟湖”
- Chinese: “奇卡巴爾潟湖”
- Dutch: “Chicabal”
- French: “lac Chicabal”
- French: “Lac Chicabal”
- German: “Laguna Chicabal”
- Lithuanian: “Čikabalio lagūna”
- Macedonian: “Лагуна Чикабал”
- Portuguese: “Laguna de Chicabal”
- Spanish: “Laguna de Chicabal”
- Spanish: “Laguna de Chicabal)”
- Swedish: “Laguneta Chiquibal”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Las Nubes I and Las Nubes II.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mirador Laguna Chikabal and Zona de Veda Definitiva Volcán Chicabal.
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