Santa Tecla
Santa Tecla, formerly known as Nueva San Salvador, is a city and a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department of La Libertad.
- Type: City with 116,000 residents
- Description: city in El Salvador
- Also known as: “Ciudad de Nueva San Salvador”, “La Ciudad de Nueva San Salvador”, “Nova San-Salvadoro”, “Nova São Salvador”, “Nueva San Salvador”, “Nueva San Salvadoras”, “Santa tecla el salvador”, “Santa Tecla, El Salvador”, and “ನುವಾ ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಸಾಲ್ವಡಾರ್”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Iglesia El Carmen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nuevo Cuscatlán.
Santa Tecla
Latitude
13.6738° or 13° 40′ 26″ north
Longitude
-89.2886° or 89° 17′ 19″ west
Population
116,000
Elevation
965 metres (3,166 feet)
Open location code
765GMPF6+GH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Santa Tecla” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳንታ ቴክላ”
- Arabic: “سانتا تكلا، السلفادور”
- Arabic: “سانتا تيكلا”
- Asturian: “Santa Tecla”
- Azerbaijani: “Santa Tekla”
- Basque: “Santa Tecla”
- Belarusian: “Санта-Тэкла”
- Belarusian: “Санта-Тэкля”
- Bengali: “সান্তা টেকলা”
- Bengali: “সান্তা তেক্লা”
- Breton: “Santa Tecla”
- Catalan: “Santa Tecla”
- Cebuano: “Santa Tecla (kapital sa departamento)”
- Cebuano: “Santa Tecla”
- Chinese: “聖特克拉”
- Czech: “Santa Tecla”
- Danish: “Santa Tecla”
- Dutch: “Santa Tecla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانتا تيكلا، السالڤادور”
- Esperanto: “Santa Tecla”
- Finnish: “Santa Tecla”
- French: “Santa Tecla”
- Galician: “Santa Tecla”
- German: “Santa Tecla”
- Greek: “Σάντα Τέκλα”
- Gujarati: “સાંતા ટેક્લા”
- Hausa: “Santa Tecla”
- Hindi: “सांता टेकला”
- Hindi: “सांता टेक्ला”
- Hungarian: “Santa Tecla”
- Indonesian: “Santa Tecla”
- Italian: “Santa Tecla”
- Japanese: “サンタ・テクラ”
- Japanese: “サンタテクラ”
- Javanese: “Santa Tecla”
- Kannada: “ಸಂತ ಟಕ್ಲಾ”
- Kazakh: “Санта-Текла”
- Kirghiz: “Санта-Текла”
- Korean: “산타테클라”
- Latvian: “Santatekla”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Tekla”
- Malay: “Santa Tecla”
- Marathi: “सांता टेक्ला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Tecla (El Salvador)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Tecla”
- Moksha: “Санта Тэкла”
- Northern Frisian: “Santa Tecla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Tecla”
- Norwegian: “Santa Tecla”
- Oromo: “Santa Tecla”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਤਾ ਟੇਕਲਾ”
- Persian: “سانتا تکلا”
- Pipil: “Pulamil”
- Polish: “Santa Tecla”
- Portuguese: “Santa Tecla”
- Pushto: “سانتا ٹیکلا”
- Russian: “Нуэва-Сан-Сальвадор”
- Russian: “Санта-Текла”
- Serbian: “Санта Текла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Tecla”
- Silesian: “Santa Tecla”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ටා ටෙක්ලා”
- Slovak: “Santa Tecla”
- Somali: “Santa Tecla”
- Spanish: “Santa Tecla”
- Swahili: “Santa Tecla”
- Swedish: “Santa Tecla”
- Tajik: “Санта-Текла”
- Tamil: “சாண்டா டெக்லா”
- Tatar: “Санта-Текла”
- Telugu: “శాంటా టెలా”
- Thai: “ซานตาเตกลา”
- Turkish: “Santa Tecla”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Текла”
- Urdu: “سانتا تکلا، ایل سیلواڈور”
- Uzbek: “Santa Tekla”
- Vietnamese: “Santa Tecla”
- Waray (Philippines): “Santa Tecla, El Salvador”
- “Santa Tecla”
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