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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Guatemala with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: department of Guatemala
- Also known as: “Alta Verapaz”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lanquín.
Lanquín
Photo: Chixoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lanquín is a town located in the southern portion of the Northern Lowlands in Guatemala. It is much hotter here than in the highlands as it is in the deep valleys between the mountains.
Alta Verapaz Department
- Location: Guatemala, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Alta Verapaz Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة ألتا فيراباز”
- 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: “Alta Verapaz Koān”
- 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: “Departement d’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”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אלטה וראפאס”
- Hindi: “ऑल्टा वेरापाज़ विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Alta Verapaz megye”
- Indonesian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Italian: “Alta Verapaz”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Alta Verapaz”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Alta Verapaz”
- Japanese: “アルタ・ベラパス県”
- Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಟಾ ವೆರಾಪಾಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- 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”
- Persian: “حوزه التا وراپاز”
- Persian: “شهرستان آلتا براپاس”
- Polish: “Alta Verapaz”
- Portuguese: “Alta Verapaz”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- 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”
- Spanish: “Alta Verapaz”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Alta Verapaz”
- Tamil: “அல்டா வெர்ப்பஸ் துறை”
- Telugu: “ఆల్టా వెరాపాజ్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “ఆల్టా వెరాపాజ్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอัลตาเบราปัซ”
- Turkish: “Alta Verapaz Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Alta Verapaz İli”
- Ukrainian: “Альта-Верапас”
- Urdu: “آلتا ویراپاس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “آلتا ویراپاس محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Alta Verapaz”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Alta Verapaz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alta Verapaz”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ آلتا ویراپاز”
- “Alta Verapaz”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rubetzul and Secaj.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Parque Nacional Grutas de Lanquín and Laj Chimel.
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