Acul is a town in the
Quiché Department
Quiché () is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the K'iche' (Quiché) people, to the north-west of Guatemala City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word K'iche comes from the language of the same name, which means ...
in
Guatemala. It is located just north but out of view from the town of
Nebaj
Nebaj is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the western Guatemala highlands near the Ixil people, Ixil village of Santa Maria Nebaj. What is now known as the Fenton Vase was excavated from this site. It is n ...
. The town was destroyed and much of its population brutally massacred by the National Army in the
Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The government forces have been condemned for committing genocide against the Maya population of ...
, but was later rebuilt in 1983 by the Government of Guatemala as a model town for other settlements similarly affected by the violence of the Civil War.
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References
Populated places in the Quiché Department