Teotepeque is a
municipality in the
La Libertad department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
. Its geographical coordinates are 13° 35' 7" North, 89° 31' 6" West. The name Teotepeque comes from the Nahuat word for "Mountain of God." Agustín
Farabundo Martí
Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez (; 5 May 1893 – 1 February 1932) was a Marxist-Leninist activist and a revolutionary leader in El Salvador during ''La Matanza''.
Early life
Martí was born in Teotepeque, a farming community loca ...
Rodríguez, for whom the
FMLN or Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front was named, was born in Teotepeque on May 5, 1893.
{{La Libertad Department
Municipalities of the La Libertad Department (El Salvador)