Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Mazatenango
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 2,510 km (970 sq mi)
- Density
- 221/km (572/sq mi)
- Urban
- 266,189
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Christian religion
- Time zone
- UTC-6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Mazatenango
- Population
- 554695
- Area
- 2510
- Elevation
- 371
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Retalhuleu Department
- Dialing code
- 502
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- language used
- Tz’utujil
- Commons category
- Suchitepéquez Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Suchitepéquez Department
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Encyclopedic overview
Suchitepéquez ( Spanish pronunciation: [sutʃiteˈpekes]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. Its capital is Mazatenango. It is situated in the southwestern region of Guatemala, bordering Quetzaltenango, Sololá, and Chimaltenango to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south, Escuintla to the east, and Retalhuleu to the west.
Municipalities
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suchitepéquez Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.