San Marcos is the Spanish name of

Saint Mark Mark the Evangelist ( la, Marcus; grc-gre, Μᾶρκος, Mârkos; arc, ܡܪܩܘܣ, translit=Marqōs; Ge'ez: ማርቆስ; ), also known as Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Accor ...

. It may also refer to:

Towns and cities

Argentina

* San Marcos, Salta

Colombia

San Marcos, Antioquia San Marcos is a town in Antioquia department in Colombia. It is approximately 175 miles (282 km) north of Medellín, in the heart of Colombia's coffee-growing region. San Marcos is located at . The symbol for its airport An ...

* San Marcos, Sucre

Costa Rica

San Marcos, Costa Rica San Marcos is a district and the head city of the canton of Tarrazú in the province of San José in Costa Rica. History The city was founded in the 1820s by agricultural migrants from the Central Valley. The region's earliest residents were ...

(aka San Marcos de Tarrazú)

Ecuador

* San Marcos, Quito

El Salvador

San Marcos, El Salvador San Marcos is a municipality in El Salvador. It is located in a small valley, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of downtown San Salvador. It has a population of 63,209. San Marcos is one of the 14 municipalities which make up the Metropolitan ...

Guatemala

San Marcos Department San Marcos is a department in northwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean and along the western Guatemala-Mexico border. The department's capital is the city of San Marcos. History Colonial period The Spanish conquest of Guatemalan Highlan ...

San Marcos, Guatemala San Marcos (elevation: 7,868 feet (2,398 meters) is a city and municipality in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of San Marcos. The municipality has a population of 47,063 (2018 census). History 1897 Quetzaltenango Revolt I ...

Honduras

* San Marcos de Caiquín *

San Marcos de Colón San Marcos de Colón is a town, with a population of 12,870 (2020 calculation), and a municipality in the Honduran department of Choluteca, located on the border with Nicaragua. The town is located on the Pan-American Highway near the Nicaragu ...

San Marcos, Ocotepeque San Marcos is a town, with a population of 6,836 (2013 census), and a municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque. This municipality of 22,000 people is located in Western Honduras bordering Guatemala and El Salvador. It's situated be ...

* San Marcos, Santa Bárbara

Mexico

San Marcos, Baja California Sur San Marcos is an island located in the northern portion of Baja California Sur, México. It faces the town of Santa Rosalía on the Gulf of California near Isla Tortuga. The only town on the island is also named San Marcos. The island has a lan ...

San Marcos, Guerrero San Marcos is a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero. It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of San Marcos. The town currently has about 12 000 inhabitants. Culturally and ethnically, the town and the municipality ...

San Marcos, Jalisco San Marcos is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 292.85 km2. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,533. History The area now incorporating the settlement of S ...

Nicaragua

San Marcos, Carazo San Marcos is a town and a municipality in the Carazo Department of Nicaragua. It is located south of the capital Managua. The municipality has a population of 33,147 (2021 estimate). San Marcos' climate enables the production of coffee and a l ...

Peru

San Marcos, Cajamarca San Marcos is a town in Northern Peru, capital of San Marcos province in the region of Cajamarca Cajamarca (), also known by the Quechua name, ''Kashamarka'', is the capital and largest city of the Cajamarca Region as well as an important cult ...

San Marcos Province The San Marcos Province is one of the thirteen Provinces of Peru, provinces in the Cajamarca Region of Peru. It was created by Law No. 23508 on December 11, 1982 by president Fernando Belaunde Terry. It has a mountainous territory which varies in h ...

United States

San Marcos, California San Marcos ( ; Spanish for " St. Mark") is a city in the North County region of San Diego County, California. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 94,833. It is the site of California State University San Marcos. The city is bordere ...

Lake San Marcos, California Lake San Marcos is a census-designated place (CDP) in the North County (San Diego area), North County region of the San Diego metropolitan area. It is nominally independent of San Marcos, California, San Marcos proper, but functionally subservient ...

California State University San Marcos California State University San Marcos (CSUSM or Cal State San Marcos) is a public university in San Marcos, California. It was founded in 1989 as the 21st campus in the 23-campus California State University (CSU) system. CSUSM offers 43 bachel ...

(in relation to other CSU campuses) ***

Cal State San Marcos Cougars The Cal State San Marcos Cougars are the athletic teams that represent California State University, San Marcos, located in San Marcos, California, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic ...

, athletics teams *

San Marcos, Texas San Marcos ( ) is a city and the county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States. The city's limits extend into Caldwell and Guadalupe Counties, as well. San Marcos is within the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area and on the Interstate 35 ...

San Marcos River The San Marcos River rises from the San Marcos Springs, the location of Aquarena Springs, in San Marcos, Texas. The springs are home to several threatened or endangered species, including the Texas blind salamander, fountain darter, and Texas wi ...

, Texas

Other

Castillo de San Marcos The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in the city of St. Augustine, Florida. It was designed by the Spanish ...

in St. Augustine, Florida; massive Spanish fortification, the oldest extant masonry fort in today's United States *

FC San Marcos FC San Marcos is a Nicaraguan football team playing in the Nicaraguan Premier Division. It is based in San Marcos. Their home stadium is Estadio Leonardo G. Jara. History San Marcos won promotion back to the Nicaraguan Premier Division in ...

, Nicaraguan football club *

La Casona de San Marcos The Casona de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, also known as Cultural Center of the National University of San Marcos, is a large Colonial building in the city of Lima, Lima Region, Peru, where the main cultural center of the Universi ...

, a large colonial building in Lima, Peru *

Jardín de San Marcos The Jardín de San Marcos ( en, San Marcos Garden; St. Mark Garden) is a Garden, public garden located in the ''Barrio de San Marcos'' in the historic centre of Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico, Has a various types of plant and tree species ...

, a Garden located in the Historic Centre of Aguascalientes, Mexico *

National University of San Marcos The National University of San Marcos ( es, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, link=no, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. It is considered the most important, recognized and representative educ ...

, Peru *

San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida organized around the historic site of a Spanish colonial fort (known as Fort St. Marks by the English and Americans), which was used by succeeding natio ...

, Florida, U.S.; site of a 17th/18th-century Spanish fort along the Gulf Coast; utilized up through the 19th-century American Civil War *

San Marcos de Arica Club Deportivo San Marcos de Arica, also known as San Marcos, is a Chilean professional football club based in Arica, that is a current member of the Segunda División. The club was founded on February 14, 1978. Between 1978 and 2005, the club wa ...

, Chilean football club *

San Marcos High School (Santa Barbara, California) San Marcos High School is a public high school located in a suburban area two miles from the city of Santa Barbara, California. Accredited through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the school was named a California Distinguished ...

, U.S. * San Marcos, a fictional Central American banana republic in the 1971 motion picture ''

Bananas A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguis ...

'', in an episode of ''

The A-Team ''The A-Team'' is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from January 1983 to March 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit. The four members of the team were tried by court marti ...

'', and in a 2014 episode of ''

Archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

'' * San Marcos, León, former monastery in León * USS ''San Marcos'' (LSD-25), a warship of the United States Navy