Sonsonate
Sonsonate is a city of 73,000 people in southwestern El Salvador, near Acajutla. Holy week is celebrated throughout Latin America, but the celebrations are particularly fervent in Sonsonate.
- Type: City with 111,000 residents
- Description: city in El Salvador
- Also known as: “Centzonatl”, “Ciudad de Sonsonate”, “Sonsonate, El Salvador”, and “Villa de la Santísima Trinidad de Sonsonate”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sonsonate Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonzacate and San Antonio del Monte.
San Antonio del Monte
Town
San Antonio del Monte is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador.
Sonsonate
Latitude
13.7206° or 13° 43′ 14″ north
Longitude
-89.7275° or 89° 43′ 39″ west
Population
111,000
Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)
UN/LOCODE
SV SST
Open location code
765GP7CF+72
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Sonsonate” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሶንሶናተ”
- Arabic: “سونسونات”
- Arabic: “سونسوناتي، السلفادور”
- Asturian: “Sonsonate”
- Azerbaijani: “Sonsonate”
- Basque: “Sonsonate”
- Belarusian: “Сансанатэ”
- Bengali: “সনসোনাত”
- Bengali: “সোনসোনাতে”
- Catalan: “Sonsonate”
- Cebuano: “Sonsonate (kapital sa departamento sa El Salvador)”
- Cebuano: “Sonsonate”
- Chinese: “松索納特”
- Czech: “Sonsonate”
- Danish: “Sonsonate”
- Dutch: “Sonsonate”
- Finnish: “Sonsonate”
- French: “Sonsonate”
- Galician: “Sonsonate”
- German: “Sonsonate”
- Greek: “Σονσονάτε”
- Gujarati: “સન્સોનેટ”
- Hausa: “Sonsonate”
- Hebrew: “סונסונטה”
- Hindi: “सोनसोनाते”
- Indonesian: “Sonsonate”
- Italian: “Sonsonate”
- Japanese: “ソンソナーテ”
- Japanese: “ソンソナテ”
- Javanese: “Sonsonate”
- Kannada: “ಸನ್ಸೊನೇಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Сонсонате”
- Kirghiz: “Сонсонате”
- Korean: “손소나테”
- Ladino: “Sonsonate”
- Latvian: “Sonsonate”
- Lithuanian: “Sonsonatė”
- Malay: “Sonsonate”
- Marathi: “सन्सोनेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonsonate (El Salvador)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonsonate”
- Moksha: “Сонсонатэ”
- Northern Frisian: “Sonsonate”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonsonate”
- Oromo: “Sonsonate”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਂਸੋਨਾਤੇ”
- Persian: “سنسناته”
- Pipil: “Sentzunhat”
- Polish: “Sonsonate”
- Portuguese: “Sonsonate”
- Pushto: “سونسونات”
- Russian: “Сонсонате”
- Serbian: “Сонсонате”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sonsonate”
- Sinhala: “සොන්සොනාටේ”
- Slovak: “Sonsonate”
- Slovenian: “Sonsonate”
- Somali: “Sonsonate”
- Spanish: “Sonsonate”
- Swahili: “Sonsonate”
- Swedish: “Sonsonate”
- Tajik: “Сонсонате”
- Tamil: “சான்சோனெட்”
- Tatar: “Сонсонате”
- Telugu: “సన్ సోనేట్”
- Thai: “ซอนโซนาเต”
- Turkish: “Sonsonate”
- Ukrainian: “Сонсонате”
- Urdu: “سونسوناتے، ایل سیلواڈور”
- Uzbek: “Sonsonate”
- Vietnamese: “Sonsonate”
- “Centzonātl”
- “Sonsonate”
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