San Marcos La Laguna is a village on the western shore of Lago Atitlán in the

Sololá Department Sololá is a department in the west of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Sololá. Lake Atitlan is a key feature surrounded by a number of the municipalities. Municipalities # Concepción # Nahualá # Panajachel # San Andrés Semetaba ...

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. The village is northwest of three volcanos

Volcán San Pedro Volcán San Pedro (or ''Las Yeguas'') is a stratovolcano on the shores of Lago de Atitlán, in the Sololá Department of southern Guatemala. At its base is the village of San Pedro La Laguna. __NOTOC__ Notes References External links S ...

Volcán Tolimán Tolimán is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the southern shores of Lake Atitlán. The volcano has an elevation of 3,158 m (10,361 ft) and was formed near the southern margin of the Pleistocene Atitlán III caldera. The top of the volcano has ...

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Volcán Atitlán Volcán Atitlán () is a large, conical, active stratovolcano adjacent to the caldera of Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas range. It is within the Sololá Department, southwestern Guatemala. The volcano ...

. The village has an outdoor amphitheater and a few hostels. San Marcos connects to other lakeside communities by boat and a narrow road. The nearest city is

Panajachel Panajachel (, Pana) is a town in the southwestern Guatemalan Highlands, less than from Guatemala City, in the department of Sololá. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The elevation is . ...

at the northern side of Lago Atitlán. The town sits at an elevation of ; the lowest elevation is the lake shore at . It is a small village of 2200 inhabitants; the majority of the population are Kaqchikel-speaking

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* {{Authority control Municipalities of the Sololá Department