Zacapa

• Official Name — Zacapa • Settlement Type — Municipality • Image Skyline — Zacapa Ciudad.jpg • Image Seal — Coat of arms of Zacapa Department.svg • Pushpin Map — Guatemala • Pushpin Label Position — bottom • Pushpin Map Caption — Location in Guatemala • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Guatemala • Subdivision Type1 — Department • Subdivision Name1 — Zacapa • Subdivision Type2 — Municipality • Subdivision Name2 — Zacapa • Government Type — Municipal • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Xiomara Ovalle de Cifuentes • Area Total Km2 — 397 • Population As Of — Census 2018 • Population Total — 60424 • Population Density Km2 — 152 • Population Urban — 60370 • Population Blank1 Title — Ethnicities • Population Blank1 — Ladinos • Population Blank2 Title — Religions • Population Blank2 — Catholicism Evangelicalism • Elevation M — 120 • Blank Name — Climate • Blank Info — BSh • Footnotes — http: www.inforpressca.com/zacapa/ Zacapa (saˈkapa) is the departmental capital municipality of Zacapa Department, one of the 22 Departments of Guatemala. It is located approximately 112 km from Guatemala City.

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).

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.