Quezaltepeque, El Salvador

Quezaltepeque
Municipality
Locomotive Museum in Quezaltepeque
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Quezaltepeque Location in El Salvador
Coordinates: 13°50′N89°16′W / 13.833°N 89.267°W / 13.833; -89.267
Country	El Salvador
Department	La Libertad
Elevation	1,401 ft (427 m)
Population  (2024 census)
• Total	62,572 [1]

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.^{[ citation needed ]}

People

• Darwin Cerén (born 1989), Salvadoran footballer who plays for C.D Águilla and the El Salvador national football team
• Óscar Cerén (born 26 October 1991) is a Salvadoran professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primera División club Isidro Metapán and the El Salvador national team.
• Manuel Flores Cornejo (born 1965), ^[2] 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.

References

1. "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2024" (PDF). pp. 117–123. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
2. "Quezaltepeque, El Lugar Donde Nací" [Quezaltepeque, The Place I Was Born]. Manuel El Chino Flores.com (in Spanish). 1 April 2018. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2023.