Sipacate is a

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and municipality on the

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coast of

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, in

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about west of

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. It is promoted as a venue for

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. Being roughly in the center of the Guatemalan coastline, it is used as a breakpoint for

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. The Sipicate-Naranjo National Park is located east of the town. The municipality was formerly a part of La Gomera Municipality just north of Sipacate.

Archaeology

Some very early human settlements are documented in Sipacate, connected with early agriculture.

In sum, sediments sampled in the Sipacate locality appear to document two distinct waves of deforestation associated with early horticulture. The earliest began shortly after 3500 cal B.C. and involved multiple episodes of forest clearance over the next 800 years. The second began after 1700 cal B.C. and coincides with the archaeologically documented presence of Early Formative populations.Hector Neff, Deborah M. Pearsall, John G. Jones, Bárbara Arroyo, Shawn K. Collins, Dorothy E. Freidel
''Early Maya Adaptive Patterns: Mid-Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evidence from Pacific Guatemala.''
Latin American Antiquity, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 2006)

Climate

Sipacate has tropical climate (

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: ''Aw'').

Geographic location

Sipacate is surrounded by

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Departament municipalities and by the

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Notable people

* Tránsito Montepeque - Guatemalan international football player

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Guatemala Early agriculture in Mesoamerica