Santiago Atitlán

Santiago Atitlán is a city in on near . It's famous as the largest indigenous population of Tz'utujil Mayans. It's much less touristy than Pana or San Pedro, and a good place to see local people going about their normal lives.
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  • Type: Town with 21,300 residents
  • Description: municipality of Sololá Department, Guatemala
  • Also known as: Atitlán”, “Santiago”, and “Santiago Atitlan
  • Neighbors: and

Santiago Atitlán

Latitude
14.6389° or 14° 38′ 20″ north
Longitude
-91.2296° or 91° 13′ 46″ west
Population
21,300
Elevation
1,603 metres (5,259 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GT SNT
Open location code
766CJQQC+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4357457708
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3589105
Wiki­data ID
Q168622
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Santiago Atitlán” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Santiago Atitlán
  • Cebuano: Municipio de Santiago Atitlán
  • Cebuano: Santiago Atitlán
  • Chinese: Santiago Atitlán
  • Chinese: 聖地亞哥阿蒂特蘭
  • Dutch: Santiago Atitlán
  • Esperanto: Santiago Atitlán
  • French: Santiago Atitlán
  • German: Santiago Atitlán
  • Italian: Santiago Atitlan
  • Italian: Santiago Atitlán
  • Japanese: サンティアゴ・アティトラン
  • Korean: 산티아고아티틀란
  • Lithuanian: Santjago Atitlanas
  • Min Nan Chinese: Santiago Atitlán
  • Polish: Santiago Atitlán
  • Portuguese: Santiago Atitlán
  • Scots: Santiago Atitlán
  • Serbo-Croatian: Santiago Atitlán
  • Spanish: Santiago Atitlan
  • Spanish: Santiago Atitlán
  • Swedish: Municipio de Santiago Atitlán
  • Swedish: Santiago Atitlán
  • Vietnamese: Santiago Atitlán
  • Santiago Ātitlan

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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 “Santiago Atitlán”. Photo: Betipá, CC BY-SA 4.0.