Nahualá
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nahuala
Nahualá () is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town is sometimes known as Santa Catalina Nahualá in honor of the town's patron saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but the official name is just "Nahualá". Formerly, the town's name was written Nagualá, and earlier transcriptions of the name in colonial documents include Nauala, Niguala, Niuala, and Navala.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Nahualá
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Guatemala
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Guatemala
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Guatemala
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 25pxSololá
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nahualá
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipal
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Manuel Tzoc Carrillo
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 218
- Settlement.population_as_of
- census 2002
- Settlement.population_total
- 51939
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 238
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Sololá Department
- Population
- 51939
- Area
- 218
- Elevation
- 2531
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Samayac
- Official website
- www.inforpressca.com/nahuala
- Dialing code
- 502
- Patron saint
- Catherine of Alexandria
Show 2 more facts
- postal code
- 07005
- Commons category
- Nahualá
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Meaning of the name
- History
- Population
- Land conflict
- Linguistic Affiliation
- Notes
- References
- External links
{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Nahualá |other_name = |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = Municipality |motto =
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nahualá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (3)
On the map
3 mapped locations