Zacapa

This article is about the municipality. For the department, see Zacapa Department. For more on the rum, see Zacapa rum.

Zacapa
Municipality
Country	Guatemala
Department	Zacapa
Municipality	Zacapa
Government
• Type	Municipal
• Mayor	Julio Sanchez
Area
• Municipality	78 km2 (30 sq mi)
Elevation	120 m (390 ft)
Population  (Census 2002)
• Municipality	59,089
• Urban	30,037
• 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 approximately 70 miles or 112 kilometers 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.

See also

• Zacapa rum, a brand named for this city.