Chinique, from the
Kʼicheʼ language «chinic´aj taka´aj», is a
municipality in the
Guatemala
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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 Quiché
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
. In 1892
Alfred Maudslay and his wife Anne reported that the place was a small group of houses made from adobe with thatched roofs. Its population as of 2023 is 14,052.
References
Municipalities of the Quiché Department
{{Coord missing, Guatemala