Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Established
- 10 November 1871
- Capital
- Zacapa
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 2,690 km (1,040 sq mi)
- Density
- 91.2/km (236/sq mi)
- Urban
- 108,485
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya
- Time zone
- UTC-6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Zacapa
- Population
- 245374
- Area
- 2690
- Elevation
- 220
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- El Progreso Department
Show 5 more facts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Zacapa Department
- Commons category
- Zacapa Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Zacapa Department
- inception
- 1871-11-10
- language used
- Ch’orti’
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Zacapa ( Spanish pronunciation: [saˈkapa]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. It lies in eastern Guatemala with its capital in the city of Zacapa, approximately 112 kilometers (70 miles) from Guatemala City.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zacapa Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.