Quezaltepeque, El Salvador Explained

Quezaltepeque
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Pushpin Map:	El Salvador
Pushpin Label Position:	bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:	300
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in El Salvador
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	El Salvador
Subdivision Type1:	Department
Subdivision Name1:	La Libertad
Unit Pref:	Imperial
Population Blank1 Title:	Ethnicities
Coordinates:	13.8333°N -105°W
Elevation M:	427

Quezaltepeque is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.

It is located about 15 km from San Salvador.

The word Quezaltepeque is a Nahuat word meaning "hills of quetzal." A quetzal is a bird that used to live around the area of Quezaltepeque. High levels of deforestation forced the bird to migrate to other areas.

People

• Darwin Cerén (born 1989), Salvadoran footballer who plays for Houston Dynamo FC and the El Salvador national football team
• Manuel Flores Cornejo (born 1965),^[1] Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) 2024 presidential candidate
• Alfonso Quijada Urías (born 1940), poet
• Salvador Sánchez Cerén (born 1944), president of El Salvador (2014–2019)

Sports

The local football club is named Juventud Alegre F.C. and it currently plays in the Salvadoran Third Division.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Quezaltepeque, El Lugar Donde Nací. Quezaltepeque, The Place I Was Born. es. 1 April 2018. 10 July 2023. Manuel El Chino Flores.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20180816191933/https://manuelchinoflores.com/quezaltepeque-el-lugar-donde-naci/. 16 August 2018. dead.