Lago de Coatepeque, Santa Ana Department, El Salvador

4.5 (174 reviews) Spent Ranking #2 in Santa Ana Bodies of Water

Great lunch and swim post Santa Ana hike

Lago de Coatepeque is a 6km lake formed in the caldera of a extinct volcano. It will be your landscape as you drive to the Santa Ana Volcano Hike in Parque Nacional Los Volcanes. Although most people appreciate it through their car window and a stop at a mirador on the way to the hike for a picture another option is to drive down to one of the various restaurant offerings located on the shore and enjoy a lunch and drink post the hike. This is what our tour did after we completed the volcano hike. I cannot recall the restaurant we went to but it did provide a platform that allowed us to have a swim in the lakes waters, which were clean and not too cold. You can also access it via public bus 220 or 242 but I’m not sure on the specifics of that. There is also a ferry that provides 45 minute tourist boat rides in the afternoon at a cost of 5 USD. Overall it complemented the Santa Ana volcano hike well and we enjoyed our afternoon there.
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Address

, Santa Ana, El Salvador.

Website

http://www.lagodecoatepeque.com/

Current local date and time now

Saturday, May 11, 2024, 16:39

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4.5 based on (174 reviews)

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Reviews

  • 5Kody G 5:00 PM Nov 8, 2021
    Gorgeous Lake
    We stopped at a few spots overlooking the lake on our route to hike the Santa Ana volcano. There are a few different spots to pull over and see the lake. It is gorgeous from above! We did not go down to the shore, so cannot comment on this. I would recommend finding a few look out spots if you're headed to Santa Ana volcano.
  • 4TravelingFamilyTrip 5:00 PM Feb 27, 2023
    Beautiful lake
    We wound up having lunch at the lakeshore one day, and at a restaurant on the cliffs around the lake another day. Both were really nice. The lake is famous for ocassionally changing colors, and we got to see a bit of this change-over in progress one of the days we were there. Very cool!

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