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Chalatenango Department
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department of El Salvador
Key facts
- Country
- El Salvador
- Established
- 14 February 1855
- Capital
- Chalatenango
- Governor
- Amílcar Iván Monge Monge ( NI )
- Total
- 778.61 sq mi (2,016.58 km )
- Rank
- 5th
- Highest elevation
- 8,960 ft (2,730 m)
- Density
- 238.80/sq mi (92.201/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( CST )
- Iso 3166 code
- SV-CH
- Website
- chalatenango .sv
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of El Salvador
- Country
- El Salvador
- Located in
- El Salvador
- Contains
- Tejutla
- Capital
- Chalatenango
- Population
- 185930
- Area
- 2017
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- San Salvador Department
- Image
- Los zapotes, chalatenango - panoramio.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chalatenango Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Chalatenango Department
- inception
- 1855-02-14
- language used
- Nawat
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Encyclopedic overview
Chalatenango ( Spanish pronunciation: [tʃalateˈnaŋɡo]) is a department of El Salvador located in the northwest of the country. The department's capital city is the city of Chalatenango, which shares the same name as the department. Chalatenango covers a land area of 778.61 square miles (2,016.58 km) and contains over 185,930 inhabitants. Chalatenango's maximum elevation, located at Cerro El Pital (the country's highest point), is 8,960 feet (2,730 m).
Amílcar Iván Monge Monge of Nuevas Ideas has been the governor of Chalatenango since 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chalatenango Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.