San Martín Zapotitlán (or simply San Martín) is a small municipality in the department of

Retalhuleu The city of Retalhuleu () is situated in south-western Guatemala. It is the departmental seat of Retalhuleu Department as well as the municipal seat of Retalhuleu Municipality. Retalhuleu stands at about 240 metres above sea level. The city has ...

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. Citizens spend every November 11 with a small fair to commemorate

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. Its land extension is 24 km², making it the smallest municipality in

and one of the smallest in all around

, nevertheless, it is ranked in top 50 most important Guatemalan municipalities, thanks to the three amusement parks (

Xetulul Xetulul is a theme park in Guatemala. It is located in the Retalhuleu Department in the southwest of the country. Opening in 2002, Xetulul is the third-largest amusement park in Latin America, after Beto Carrero World in Penha, Santa Catarina, B ...

, Xocomil and Xejuyup) that were inaugurated there. San Martín Zapotitlán has many tourist places, being

, Xocomil, Xejuyup, Club Mil Palmeras and Hostales del Irtra the most important and known. Its

gross domestic product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performanc ...

highly depends on them.

Geographic location

San Martín Zapotitlán is part of

and it is located at around 180 km from

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. It shares borders with: * North and west: San Felipe * South:

Santa Cruz Muluá Santa Cruz Muluá is a municipality in the Retalhuleu department of Guatemala. Its name comes from the ancient mayan word " Mulaja " which means " Land Between Rivers, " because its between the Samalá River, the Rio Muluá and many other small rive ...

* East:

San Andrés Villa Seca San Andrés Villa Seca is a town and municipality in the Retalhuleu Department of Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast b ...

References

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