Chalatenango Department · El Salvador
Chalatenango population
19,364people · latest figure
Chalatenango has a population of 19,364, making it the 27th largest place we list in El Salvador. It is in Chalatenango Department.
Chalatenango holds 0.30% of El Salvador's 6,391,253 people. San Salvador, the largest place we list there, is 27 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 19,364 for Chalatenango in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Acajutla | Sonsonate Department | 22,763 |
| Aguilares | San Salvador Department | 21,445 |
| Sensuntepeque | Cabanas | 20,386 |
| Izalco | Sonsonate Department | 19,197 |
| Metapán | Santa Ana Department | 19,143 |
| San Rafael Oriente | San Miguel Department | 19,095 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.