Mixco () is a
city
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and municipality in the
Guatemala department
Guatemala Department is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital is Guatemala City, which also serves as the national capital. The department consists of Guatemala City and several of its suburbs.
The department covers a surface are ...
of
Guatemala
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. It is next to the main Guatemala City municipality and has become part of the
Guatemala City Metropolitan Area. Most of Mixco is separated from the city by
canyons
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, for which a multitude of bridges have been created.
Ciudad San Cristóbal, one of Guatemala's largest cities, is located in this municipality. It is the second largest city in Guatemala Department, after
Guatemala City
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, with a population of 465,773.
Administrative division
![Guatemala - Mixco](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Guatemala_-_Mixco.png)
The municipality is divided into zones with residential neighborhoods, villages, settlements and the municipal capital. Due to its close proximity to
Guatemala City
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, several villages were turned into residential neighborhoods.
From the residential neighborhoods it is excluded "La Florida", which separated from Mixco to join
Guatemala City
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in 1958.
Mayors
Universities
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UruralG
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UPANA
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USAC
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URL
*UNI
Sports
Deportivo Mixco
Club Social y Deportivo Mixco is a Guatemalan football club based in Mixco, a municipality in the Guatemala City metropolitan area. They play in the Liga Nacional, the top tier of Guatemalan football, after achieving promotion during the Claus ...
football club play in the
Guatemalan second division. They have been playing their home games at different locations and plan to build the new Estadio de La Tierra de Campeones.
Estadio del Deportivo Mixco
- Deportivo Mixco
In film
* In 1969, the Mexican-Guatemalan film ''El ogro
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 ...
'', with famous Mexican comedian Germán Valdéz
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Surname
* Domingo Germán (born 1992), baseball player
* Esteban Germán (born 1978), Dominican professiona ...
and Guatemalan actor Herbert Meneses
Herbert Meneses (July 17, 1939 – March 6, 2021) was a Guatemalan actor, writer, teacher, and director of film, television, and theater productions. He began his acting career at age 11. He was part of many radio play series.The government of Gu ...
was filmed on location in Tikal
Tikal () (''Tik’al'' in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Co ...
and Mixco. The scenes shot in Mixco include Germán Valdéz as an old church keeper and a group of children who listen to his old stories.
Climate
Mixco has a subtropical highland climate
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(Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
: ''Cwb'').
Geographic location
See also
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*List of places in Guatemala
This is a list of places in Guatemala.
List of most populous cities in Guatemala
Population data up to number 30 is based on the 2018 census.
Ancient cities and important ruins
* Cancuén
* Dos Pilas
* El Baul
* Iximche
* Kami ...
*Guatemala Department
Guatemala Department is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital is Guatemala City, which also serves as the national capital. The department consists of Guatemala City and several of its suburbs.
The department covers a surface are ...
*Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nest ...
References
External links
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History
Municipalidad de Mixco
(in Spanish)
La Casa de La Cultura de Mixco
(in Spanish)
Mixco Tierra de Campeones
(in Spanish)
{{Authority control
Municipalities of the Guatemala Department