Quezaltepeque, El Salvador
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.
People
- Darwin Cerén, Salvadoran footballer who plays for C.D Águilla and the El Salvador national football team
- Óscar Cerén 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, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 2024 presidential candidate
- Alfonso Quijada Urías, poet
- Salvador Sánchez Cerén, president of El Salvador