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Zacapa
Municipality
Zacapa Ciudad.jpg
Official seal of Zacapa
Seal
Zacapa is located in Guatemala
Zacapa
Zacapa
Location in Guatemala
Country Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala
Department ..Zacapa Flag(GUATEMALA).png Zacapa
Municipality Zacapa
Government
 • Type Municipal
Area
 • Municipality 397 km2 (153 sq mi)
Elevation
120 m (390 ft)
Population
 (Census 2018)
 • Municipality 60,424
 • Density 152/km2 (390/sq mi)
 • Urban
60,370
 • Ethnicities
Ladinos
 • Religions
Catholicism
Evangelicalism
Climate BSh
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Zacapa (Spanish pronunciation: [saˈkapa]) is the departmental capital municipality of Zacapa Department, one of the 22 Departments of Guatemala. It is located approximately 112 kilometres (70 mi) from Guatemala City.

Sports

Football club Deportivo Zacapa competes in Guatemala's top division and play their home games at the Estadio David Ordoñez Bardales. Their team mascot is the Gallo (rooster).

Etymology

Historian and poet, Capitán Don Francisco Antonio De Fuentes Y Guzmán notes in his Remembrance Florida, the name Zacapa derives from Nahuatl Zacatl meaning grass or weed, and apan meaning in the river, a word which in turn is composed of atl also meaning water, river, and apan. Zacapa means on the river of grass.

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