Sololá is a

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in the west of

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. The capital is the city of

Sololá __NOTOC__ Sololá is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Sololá and the administrative seat of Sololá municipality. It is located close to Lake Atitlan. The name is a Hispanicized form of its pre-Columbian name, one sp ...

. Lake Atitlan is a key feature surrounded by a number of the municipalities.

Municipalities

# Concepción #

Nahualá Nahualá () is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town is sometimes known as Santa Catalina Nahualá in honor of the town's patron saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but the official name is just "Nahualá". Formerly, ...

Panajachel Panajachel (, Pana) is a town in the southwestern Guatemalan Highlands, less than from Guatemala City, in the department of Sololá. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name. The elevation is . P ...

San Andrés Semetabaj San Andrés Semetabaj () is a Municipalities of Guatemala, municipality in the Sololá Department, Sololá department of Guatemala. According to Jorge Luis Arriola's ''Geonimias de Guatemala'' (English:''Name origins of geographic locations in Gu ...

San Antonio Palopó San Antonio Palopó is a Municipalities of Guatemala, municipality in the Sololá Department of Guatemala. The village is on the eastern shore of Lago de Atitlán, Lake Atitlán. The lowest elevation is at the shoreline. The people of the region ...

San José Chacayá San José Chacayá is a Municipalities of Guatemala, municipality in the Sololá Department, Sololá department of Guatemala. Municipalities of the Sololá Department {{Guatemala-geo-stub ...

San Juan La Laguna San Juan La Laguna () is a municipality on the southwest shore of Lago de Atitlán, Sololá, Guatemala. It consists of the village named San Juan La Laguna and three smaller ''aldeas'' (small villages) in the nearby mountain. The population is ...

San Lucas Tolimán San Lucas Tolimán is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town of 17,000 people sits on the southeastern shore of Lago de Atitlán. The population is 90–95% Highland Maya. There is a population of about the same size livin ...

San Marcos La Laguna San Marcos La Laguna is a village on the western shore of Lago Atitlán in the Sololá Department of Guatemala. The village is northwest of three volcanos Volcán San Pedro, Volcán Tolimán, and Volcán Atitlán. The village has an outdoor amphi ...

San Pablo La Laguna San Pablo La Laguna () is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. It consists of the village that bears the name San Pablo La Laguna which is situated on the shore of Lake Atitlan A lake is an area filled with water, localize ...

San Pedro La Laguna San Pedro La Laguna () is a Guatemalan town on the southwest shore of Lake Atitlán. For centuries, San Pedro La Laguna has been inhabited by the Tz'utujil people, and in recent years it has also become a tourist destination for its Spanish langua ...

Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. It is located at about in altitude in the steep mountains of the Sierra Madre range, descending from the western highlands to the southern coastal plain. The indi ...

Santa Catarina Palopó Santa Catarina Palopó is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The municipality is located on the shores of Lake Atitlán, approximately 3 miles southeast of Panajachel, a popular tourist destination. To its southeast is San An ...

Santa Clara La Laguna Santa Clara La Laguna () is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north ...

Santa Cruz La Laguna Santa Cruz La Laguna is a municipality located on the northern shore of Lago de Atitlán in the Sololá department of Guatemala. It consists of the villages of Santa Cruz La Laguna and Tzununá as well as four smaller villages (caseríos). As o ...

Santa Lucía Utatlán Santa Lucía Utatlán () is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. Climate Santa Lucia Utatlan has a subtropical highland climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate, is the humid temperate climate sub-type in ...

# Santa María Visitación #

Santiago Atitlán Santiago Atitlán (, from Nahuatl ''atitlan'', "at the water", in Tz'utujil ''Tz'ikin Jaay'', "birdhouse") is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town is situated on Lake Atitlán, which has an elevation of . The town si ...

Population

As of 2018, the department had a population of 421,583. The area is populated almost entirely by different Mayan ethnic groups, of which the two largest groups are the

Kaqchikel people The Kaqchikel (also called Kachiquel) are one of the indigenous Maya peoples of the midwestern highlands in Guatemala. They constitute Guatemala's third largest Maya group. The name was formerly spelled in various other ways, including Cakchiquel ...

and

K'iche' K'iche', K'ichee', or Quiché may refer to: *K'iche' people of Guatemala, a subgroup of the Maya *K'iche' language, a Maya language spoken by the K'iche' people **Classical K'iche' language, the 16th century form of the K'iche' language *Kʼicheʼ ...

accounted for 50.1% of the department's population, and

accounted for 35.3%. Indigenous people in total account for 96.5% of the department's population.

Economy

With fertile

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, Sololá farmers produce

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeologi ...

barley Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley pr ...

vegetable Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, ...

s, and

fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particu ...

. Fruits include

apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...

cherries A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The nam ...

cherimoya The cherimoya (''Annona cherimola''), also spelled chirimoya and called chirimuya by the Inca people, is a species of edible fruit-bearing plant in the genus '' Annona'', from the family Annonaceae, which includes the closely related sweetsop a ...

peach The peach (''Prunus persica'') is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned, non-fu ...

es, and

pear Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in the Northern Hemisphere in late summer into October. The pear tree and shrub are a species of genus ''Pyrus'' , in the family Rosaceae, bearing the p ...

Livestock Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to provide labor and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to animals ...

is also common, including sheep. Since 1850, the region has had a large

wool Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool. As ...

industry.

Ecology

The area is

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ous. In 1850, the

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described it as having a "healthy"

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"rather inclining to cold, or...temperate." Temperatures warm further south.

Lago de Atitlán __NOTOC__ Lago, which means "lake" in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Galician, may refer to: Places *Lago, Calabria, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy *Lago, Mexico, a municipality zone in the State of Mexico *Lago District, a ''dis ...

is located in Sololá.

Sports

Saprissa de Guatemala is Solola's main football team and the most famous club in the department.

References

Departments of Guatemala {{Guatemala-geo-stub