Totonicapán is a city in
Guatemala. It serves as the capital of the
department of
Totonicapán and as the administrative seat for the surrounding municipality of Totonicapán.
History
In 1838 Totonicapam was declared an independent republic, in which the adjoining departments 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 ...
and
Quezaltenango were included. This state existed for two years, and was then again merged in the republic of Guatemala.
Totonicapam suffered greatly in the
earthquake of April 18, 1902.
Historically, Totonicapán was known for its
hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by c ...
s.
Notes and References
External links
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Municipalities of the Totonicapán Department
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