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Citalá is a district in the Chalatenango Department of El Salvador. In Mayan-Ch’orti’ language its name means “the river of the stars”. As of 2013, it had a population of 4,270.

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Settlement.name
Citalá
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District
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300px
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El Salvador
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bottom
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300
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Location in El Salvador
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
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Department
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Chalatenango
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Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Chalatenango Norte
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Mayor
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José Lorenzo Valdivieso (since 2006)
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ARENA
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Imperial
Settlement.population_as_of
2013
Settlement.population_total
4,270

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4 sections
Contents
  • Geography
  • Main sights
  • Church del Pilar-Citalá
  • References

Citalá is a district in the Chalatenango Department of El Salvador. In Mayan-Ch’orti’ language its name means “the river of the stars”. As of 2013, it had a population of 4,270.

==Geography== It is 47 km from Chalatenango and in the suburbs of the frontier of Honduras. It has an elevation of 788 meters over sea level and is 119 km from San Salvador.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Citalá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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