Teotepeque is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
La Libertad department of
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of 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 by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
. 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 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)