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Municipality in Guatemala, Guatemala

Villa Canales

Villa Canales is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala, situated 22 km south of the capital Guatemala City.

Villa Canales
Villa Canales · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Villa Canales is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala, situated 22 km south of the capital Guatemala City. As of the 2018 census, the city had a population of 124,680, making it the eleventh largest city in Guatemala.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Villa Canales

2 places 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
    Lake Amatitlán

    Lake Amatitlán is a lake located within the Amatitlán caldera in south-central Guatemala, fairly close to Guatemala City. It lies in the central highlands, 1,186 m above sea level.

    4.9 km · crater lake in Guatemala Department · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Estadio Municipal de San Miguel Petapa

    Julio Armando Cobar Stadium is a multi-use stadium in San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala. With artificial turf surface, it is used mostly for football and was the home stadium of Petapa.

    3.3 km · football stadium in San Miguel Petapa, 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 Villa Canales

Airports
La Aurora (GUA), 11 km · El Salvador Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL), 197 km
  • San Salvador (San Luis Talpa) → Villa Canales
    192 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · $20–28
  • San Pedro Sula → Villa Canales
    292 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · $210–320
  • Palmerola → Villa Canales
    316 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · $190–290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Villa Canales

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 Villa Canales. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    281 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    451 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    519 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    627 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,576 km

If you know how people move in Villa Canales – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Villa Canales

Villa Canales is 7 km from Villa Nueva, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.