Cantel
Cantel is a village in Guatemala, 10 km from the major city of Quetzaltenango. It is inhabited by K'iche' Maya. Just like going to its neighboring village Zunil, take a bus from either Minerva bus terminal or Rotonda bus stop in Quetzaltenango, or from the corner of 7 calle and 15 avenida in Zona 3.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 42,100 residents
- Description: municipality in the Quetzaltenango Department in Guatemala
- Also known as: “Cantel, Guatemala”
- Neighbors: Almolonga, Quetzaltenango, Salcajá, and Zunil
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Almolonga and Zunil.
Almolonga
Photo: Zigomar, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Almolonga is a city in Guatemala on the road between Ciudad de Quetzaltenango and Zunil. It provides medicinal sulfur baths, an up-close look at every day agro-business, and a taste of Guatemalan culture.
Zunil
Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zunil is a town and municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala with a surface area of 80 square kilometres. The town of Zunil is located 9 kilometres from the city of Quetzaltenango, on the bank of the Salamá River.
Cantel
Latitude
14.8117° or 14° 48′ 42″ northLongitude
-91.4556° or 91° 27′ 20″ westPopulation
42,100Elevation
2,364 metres (7,756 feet)Open location code
766CRG6V+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1039836422
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Cantel” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cantel”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Cantel”
- Chinese: “Cantel”
- Chinese: “坎特尔”
- Chinese: “坎特爾”
- Dutch: “Cantel”
- French: “Cantel”
- Italian: “Cantel”
- Lithuanian: “Kantelis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cantel”
- Polish: “Cantel”
- Portuguese: “Cantel”
- Spanish: “Cantel”
- Swedish: “Cantel”
- Swedish: “Municipio de Cantel”
- Urdu: “کانتیل، گواتیمالا”
- “Cantel”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cantel”. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.