Alta Verapaz Department
Alta Verapaz is a department in the north central part of Guatemala. The capital and chief city of the department is Cobán. Verapaz is bordered to the north by El Petén, to the east by Izabal, to the south by Zacapa, El Progreso, and Baja Verapaz, and to the west by El Quiché.- Department of Guatemala with about 1,360,000 residents
- …is also known as “Alta Verapaz”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lanquín.
Lanquín
Lanquín is a town located in the southern portion of the Northern Lowlands in Guatemala.
Alta Verapaz Department
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Latitude
15.6667° or 15° 40′ north
Longitude
-90° or 90° west
Open location code
767GM282+M2
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Alta Verapaz Department” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አልታ ቬራፓዝ”
- Arabic: “إدارة ألتا فيراباز”
- Azerbaijani: “Alta Verapas”
- Basque: “Alta Verapaz”
- Bengali: “আল্টা ভেরাপাজ বিভাগ”
- Bosnian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Breton: “Departamant Alta Verapaz”
- Bulgarian: “Горен Верапас”
- Catalan: “Alta Verapaz”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Chinese: “上維拉帕斯省”
- Chinese: “上维拉帕斯省”
- Chinese: “上韋拉帕斯省”
- Chinese: “上韦拉帕斯”
- Chinese: “上韦拉帕斯省”
- Croatian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Croatian: “Departman Alta Verapaz”
- Danish: “Alta Verapaz Department”
- Dutch: “Alta Verapaz”
- Esperanto: “Alta Verapaco”
- Esperanto: “Alta Verapaz”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Alta Verapaco”
- Finnish: “Alta Verapaz”
- French: “Alta Verapaz”
- French: “Département d’Alta Verapaz”
- Galician: “Alta Verapaz”
- Galician: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Georgian: “ალტა-ვერაპასის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Alta Verapaz”
- German: “Departamento Alta Verapaz”
- German: “GT-AV”
- Greek: “Άλτα Βεραπάς”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα της Άλτα Βεραπάς”
- Gujarati: “અલ્ટા વેરાપાઝ વિભાગ”
- Hausa: “Alta Verapas”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אלטה וראפאס”
- Hindi: “आल्ता बेरापास विभाग”
- Hindi: “ऑल्टा वेरापाज़ विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Alta Verapaz megye”
- Indonesian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Italian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Alta Verapaz”
- Japanese: “アルタ・ベラパス県”
- Javanese: “Alta Verapas”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಟಾ ವೆರಾಪಾಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Kazakh: “Альта Верапас”
- Kirghiz: “Альта Верапас”
- Korean: “알타베라파스주”
- Ladino: “Alta Verapaz”
- Latvian: “Altaverapasas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Alta Verapasas”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinio Verapaso departamentas”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Verapasas”
- Malay: “Alta Verapaz Department”
- Marathi: “अल्टा वेरापाझ विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alta Verapaz Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Alta Verapaz (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Northern Sami: “Alta Verapaz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alta Verapaz”
- Norwegian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Oromo: “Alta Verapas”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲਤਾ ਵੇਰਾਪਾਜ਼”
- Persian: “حوزه التا وراپاز”
- Persian: “شهرستان آلتا براپاس”
- Polish: “Alta Verapaz”
- Portuguese: “Alta Verapaz”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Pushto: “آلتا ورا پاز”
- Quechua: “Hanan Verapaz suyu”
- Russian: “Альта-Верапас”
- Scots: “Alta Verapaz Depairtment”
- Scots: “Alta Verapaz”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Sinhala: “අල්ටා වෙරපාස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “Alta Verapaz”
- Slovenian: “Departamento Alta Verapaz”
- Slovenian: “Departma Alta Verapaz”
- Somali: “Alta Verapas”
- Spanish: “Alta Verapaz”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Swahili: “Alta Verapas”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Tajik: “Альта Верапас”
- Tamil: “அல்டா வெர்ப்பஸ் துறை”
- Tatar: “Alta Verapas”
- Telugu: “ఆల్టా వెరాపాజ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “ఆల్టా వెరాపాజ్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอัลตาเบราปัซ”
- Turkish: “Alta Verapaz Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Alta Verapaz İli”
- Turkish: “Alta Verapaz”
- Ukrainian: “Альта-Верапас”
- Urdu: “آلتا ویراپاس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “آلتا ویراپاس محکمہ”
- Uzbek: “Alta Verapas”
- Vietnamese: “Alta Verapaz”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Alta Verapaz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alta Verapaz”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ آلتا ویراپاز”
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