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Municipality and town in Sacatepéquez Department, Guatemala

Santa Lucía Milpas Altas

Santa Lucía Milpas Altas is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez.

Santa Lucía Milpas Altas
Santa Lucía Milpas Altas · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Santa Lucía Milpas Altas is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. The town has a population of 12,234.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santa Lucía Milpas Altas

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Santo Domingo Monastery

    Santo Domingo Church and Monastery is a ruined monastery in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Its history can be traced back to 1538 when the Dominicans arrived in Guatemala.

    5.8 km · church building in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Santa Lucía Milpas Altas

Airports
La Aurora (GUA), 16 km · El Salvador Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL), 215 km
  • San Salvador (San Luis Talpa) → Santa Lucía Milpas Altas
    211 km · quickest by road, 5h 38m · $23–31
  • San Pedro Sula → Santa Lucía Milpas Altas
    303 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · $220–340
  • Palmerola → Santa Lucía Milpas Altas
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santa Lucía Milpas Altas

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Santa Lucía Milpas Altas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can also pre-arrange a charter tourist van to pick you up at the airport, which for first-time visitors might be the safest and most convenient option.
  • Get inThe shuttle options are offered either as one way transportation or they can be as part of an independent day trip or guided tour with return on the same day.
  • Get inThere are day trips to Tikal which are offered with an early shuttle to the airport and a flight to Flores and back the same day/evening.
  • Get aroundTuk-tuks and taxis can take you to destinations within the city center for Q15 or more.
  • Get aroundTuk-tuks usually do not go to Guatemala City, and they stop working at 22:00, so one will need a shuttle or taxi instead.

From Wikivoyage: Antigua Guatemala, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    275 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    452 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    517 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    645 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,594 km

If you know how people move in Santa Lucía Milpas Altas – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Santa Lucía Milpas Altas

Santa Lucía Milpas Altas is 10 km from Mixco, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.