Guatemala
Central Highlands
Alta Verapaz Department

Cobán

Cobán is a city of 212,000 people in the Alta Verapaz department of the region of .
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  • Type: City with 30,700 residents
  • Description: municipality and capital of Alta Verapaz Department, Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Santo Domingo de Cobán”

Places of Interest

Highlights include José Ángel Rossi Stadium and Cobán Cathedral.

Stadium
Photo: Hetor elgood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Verapaz is a soccer in the city of Cobán in . It was inaugurated on 1 August 1936 and has a capacity of 15,000. It is home to Liga Nacional club Cobán Imperial.

Church
Photo: Nerdoguate, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The St. Dominic Cathedral also called is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the town and municipality of Cobán in department of the Central American country of .

Church
The is a temple of in Cobán's 2nd ward. The intent to build the temple was announced on October 5, 2019, by church president Russell M.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Las Victorias National Park.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a protected area of forest and lakefront amid the urban jungle of Cobán in central . The park is fairly small for a national park and is used mostly by locals as a weekend recreation area for hiking, picnics, and camping.

Cobán

Latitude
15.4702° or 15° 28′ 13″ north
Longitude
-90.3735° or 90° 22′ 25″ west
Population
30,700
Elevation
1,326 metres (4,350 feet)
IATA airport code
CBV
United Nations Location Code
GT CBV
Open location code
767FFJCG+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2523418507
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3598119
Wiki­data ID
Q867077
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cobán” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوبان، غواتيمالا”
  • Armenian: “Կոբան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Koban”
  • Basque: “Coban”
  • Basque: “Cobán”
  • Bengali: “কোবান”
  • Bulgarian: “Кобан”
  • Catalan: “Cobán”
  • Cebuano: “Cobán”
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Cobán”
  • Chinese: “Cobán”
  • Chinese: “科万”
  • Chinese: “科萬”
  • Czech: “Cobán”
  • Danish: “Coban”
  • Danish: “Cobán”
  • Dutch: “Coban”
  • Dutch: “Cobán”
  • Esperanto: “Cobán”
  • Finnish: “Cobán”
  • French: “Cobán”
  • Galician: “Cobán”
  • Georgian: “კობანი”
  • German: “Cobán”
  • Greek: “Κομπάν”
  • Gujarati: “કોબાન”
  • Hebrew: “קובאן”
  • Hindi: “कोबान”
  • Hungarian: “Cobán”
  • Indonesian: “Cobán”
  • Italian: “Coban”
  • Italian: “Cobán”
  • Japanese: “コバン”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಬಾನ್”
  • Korean: “코반”
  • Ladino: “Cobán”
  • Latvian: “Kobana”
  • Lithuanian: “Kobanas”
  • Malay: “Coban”
  • Marathi: “कोबॅन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cobán”
  • Northern Sami: “Cobán”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Coban”
  • Persian: “کوبان، آلتا وراپاس”
  • Persian: “کوبان، التا وراپاز”
  • Polish: “Cobán”
  • Portuguese: “Cobán”
  • Portuguese: “Santo Domingo de Cobán”
  • Russian: “Кобан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cobán”
  • Silesian: “Cobán”
  • Sinhala: “කොබාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Cobán”
  • Spanish: “Cobán”
  • Swedish: “Cobán”
  • Tamil: “கோபன்”
  • Telugu: “కోబన్”
  • Thai: “โกบัน”
  • Turkish: “Coban”
  • Ukrainian: “Кобан”
  • Urdu: “کوبآن”
  • Vietnamese: “Coban”
  • Welsh: “Cobán”
  • “Cobán”

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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 “Cobán”. Photo: Fjdelisle, CC BY 2.5.