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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 111,000 residents
- Description: city in El Salvador
- Also known as: “Centzonatl”, “Ciudad de Sonsonate”, and “Sonsonate, El Salvador”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sonsonate Cathedral.
Sonsonate Cathedral
Church
Photo: Stvn87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Most Holy Trinity Cathedral Also Sonsonate Cathedral is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church located in the city of Sonsonate in the department of the same name, in the western part of the Central American country of El Salvador.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonzacate and San Antonio del Monte.
San Antonio del Monte
Town
San Antonio del Monte is also a subdivision of Garafía in the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands San Antonio del Monte is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador.
Nahulingo
Town
Nahulingo is a local district in the municipality of Sonsonate Centro in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. According to the 2007 Housing and Population Census, it has a population of 10,417 people.
Sonsonate
Latitude
13.7206° or 13° 43′ 14″ northLongitude
-89.7275° or 89° 43′ 39″ westPopulation
111,000Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)United Nations Location Code
SV SSTOpen location code
765GP7CF+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 322789099OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sonsonate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سونسوناتي، السلفادور”
- Asturian: “Sonsonate”
- Basque: “Sonsonate”
- Belarusian: “Сансанатэ”
- Bengali: “সোনসোনাতে”
- Catalan: “Sonsonate”
- Cebuano: “Sonsonate (kapital sa departamento sa El Salvador)”
- Cebuano: “Sonsonate”
- Chinese: “Sonsonate”
- Chinese: “松索納特”
- Czech: “Sonsonate”
- Danish: “Sonsonate”
- Dutch: “Sonsonate”
- Finnish: “Sonsonate”
- French: “Sonsonate”
- Galician: “Sonsonate”
- German: “Sonsonate”
- Greek: “Σονσονάτε”
- Gujarati: “સન્સોનેટ”
- Hebrew: “סונסונטה”
- Hindi: “सोनसोनाते”
- Indonesian: “Sonsonate”
- Italian: “Sonsonate”
- Japanese: “ソンソナーテ”
- Kannada: “ಸನ್ಸೊನೇಟ್”
- Korean: “손소나테”
- Ladino: “Sonsonate”
- Latvian: “Sonsonate”
- Lithuanian: “Sonsonatė”
- Malay: “Sonsonate”
- Marathi: “सन्सोनेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonsonate (El Salvador)”
- Moksha: “Сонсонатэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonsonate”
- Persian: “سنسناته”
- Polish: “Sonsonate”
- Portuguese: “Sonsonate”
- Russian: “Сонсонате”
- Serbian: “Сонсонате”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sonsonate”
- Sinhala: “සොන්සොනාටේ”
- Slovenian: “Sonsonate”
- Spanish: “Sonsonate”
- Swedish: “Sonsonate”
- Tamil: “சான்சோனெட்”
- Telugu: “సన్ సోనేట్”
- Thai: “ซอนโซนาเต”
- Turkish: “Sonsonate”
- Ukrainian: “Сонсонате”
- Urdu: “سونسوناتے، ایل سیلواڈور”
- Vietnamese: “Sonsonate”
- “Centzonātl”
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