Cantel, Guatemala
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Cantel is a municipality in the
Quetzaltenango Department Quetzaltenango is a department in the western highlands of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Quetzaltenango, the second largest city in Guatemala.Rouanet et al 1992, p.14. The department is divided up into 24 municipalities. The inhabitants in ...
in
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 and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
. It is located east of the city of
Quetzaltenango Quetzaltenango (, also known by its Maya name Xelajú or Xela ) is both the seat of the namesake Department and municipality, in Guatemala. The city is located in a mountain valley at an elevation of above sea level at its lowest part. It may ...
and has an area of 52.6 km2. The town of Cantel, with a population of 35,825 (2018 census),Citypopulation.de
Population of cities & towns in Guatemala is situated at an altitude of 2,370 metres. Cantel includes the small
Maya Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ...
archaeological sites of
Chojolom Chojolom is a small Maya archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. The site features a number of sculpted stones that are presumed to belong to the Kʼicheʼ Maya culture of the Postclassic Period (approximately AD 900–152 ...
and
Cerro Quiac Cerro Quiac () (K'iaq and K'iaqb'al in the K'iche language) is a small Maya archaeological site located at an altitude of , overlooking the Plains of Urbina in the Guatemalan Highlands. When investigated in 1970 it had five stone sculptures, by 1 ...
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Website of Cantel
Municipalities of the Quetzaltenango Department {{guatemala-geo-stub