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Pachalúm
Pachalúm is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Pachalúm had been a village in the municipality of Joyabaj, but was recognized as separate municipality in 1986.Acuerdo Gubernativo 377-86 of the 27th of June 1986, mentioned in http://pachalum.pa.funpic.org/ History The name «Pachalum» originated from the ''Pachecas' game'' which men practiced under the shadow of a "Chalum" tree during the early years of the 20th century. During the Spanish colony José de Alvarado —relative of conquistador Pedro de Alvarado— was given from the Kingdom of Guatemala authorities more than one hundred fifty acres of land in the Santa María Xoyavaj region, dando origen a los establecimientos de colonizadores españoles en la región. Pachalúm was mentioned for the first time in 1817, as place for sugar production settled by Spanish families that arrived there from San Martín Jilotepeque, Santa Cruz El Chol and from most of the modern Baja Verapaz Department ...
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Quiché Department
Quiché () is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples, to the north-west of Guatemala City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word Kʼicheʼ comes from the language of the same name, which means "many trees". Population Quiché has historically been one of the most populous departments of Guatemala. At the 2018 census it had a population of 949,261. Mayans account for 88.6% of the department's population. Kʼicheʼ people are the largest Mayan ethnic group in the department, and account for 65.1% of the total population. The department is named after them. While most of its indigenous population speaks the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) language, other Mayan languages spoken in the department are Ixil ( Nebaj - Chajul - Cotzal area), Uspantek ( Uspantán area), Sakapultek ( Sacapulas area), as well as Poqomchiʼ and Q'eqchi' in the northeast, bordering the Alta Verapaz department. Geography The ...
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Departments Of Guatemala
The Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 Department (country subdivision), departments (Spanish language, Spanish: ''departamentos'') which in turn are divided into 340 Municipalities of Guatemala, municipalities. The departments are governed by a departmental governor, appointed by the President of Guatemala, President. In addition, Guatemala has claimed that all or part of the nation of Belize is a department of Guatemala, and this claim is sometimes reflected in maps of the region. Guatemala formally recognized Belize in 1991, but the Belizean–Guatemalan territorial dispute, border disputes between the two nations have not been resolved. Evolution of Guatemala's territorial organization * 19th century - The department surrounding British Honduras is called Verapaz by the British * 1825 - The first seven departments officially established. Verapaz, Chiquimula, Guatemala/Escuintla, Sacatepéquez/Chimaltenango, Soconusco, Totonicapán/Huehuetenango, and Such ...
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San Martín Jilotepeque
San Martín Jilotepeque is a town, with a population of 10,812 (2018 census), and a municipality in the Chimaltenango department of Guatemala. It was the site of a bus accident in 2013. History Doctrine of Order of Preachers After the conquest, the Spanish crown focused on the Catholic indoctrination of the natives. Human settlements founded by royal missionaries in the New World were called "Indian doctrines" or simply "doctrines". Originally, friars had only temporary missions: teach the Catholic faith to the natives, and then transfer the settlements to secular parishes, just like the ones that existed in Spain at the time; the friars were supposed to teach Spanish and Catholicism to the natives. And when the natives were ready, they could start living in parishes and contribute with mandatory tithing, just like the people in Spain. But this plan never materialized, mainly because the Spanish crown lost control of the regular orders as soon as their friars set course ...
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Cubulco
Cubulco is a small town, with a population of 10,681 (2018 census),Citypopulation.de
Population of cities & towns in Guatemala located in the Guatemalan department of Baja Verapaz, at . It serves as the administrative seat for the surrounding of the same name. The municipality covers an area of 711 km² and has a population of 54,869 (2018).


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Before the Spanish conquest

Worried about the defection of the aj K'ub'ul family chief -who had taken his family away in order to look for fertile and, above all, pacific land which eventually becam ...
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Santa Cruz Del Quiché
Santa Cruz del Quiché is a city, with a population of 78,279 (2018 census), in Guatemala. It serves as the capital of the El Quiché department and the municipal seat of Santa Cruz del Quiché municipality. The city is located at , at an elevation of 2,021 m (6,631 feet) above sea level. It has an airport, Quiché Airport, located just south of the city. History Santa Cruz del Quiché was founded by Pedro de Alvarado, a companion and second in-command of conquistador Hernán Cortés, after he burned down the nearby Maya capital city of Q'umarkaj (or Utatlán, in the Nahuatl language). The oldest buildings, including a large cathedral and clock tower in the central plaza, were constructed out of the stones of the Q'umarkaj ruins by the Dominicans. Some think it likely that it was in Santa Cruz where a group of anonymous K'iche' nobles of the Nim Ch'okoj class transcribed the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya. In Santa Cruz, the former rulers of Q'umarkaj were reduced t ...
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Chimaltenango
Chimaltenango is a city in Guatemala with a population of 96,985 (2018 census).Citypopulation.de
Population of cities & towns in Guatemala It serves as both the capital of the department of Chimaltenango and the municipal seat for the surrounding of the same name. Chimaltenango stands some west of , on the

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Guatemala City
Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Department and the most populous urban metropolitan area in Central America. The city is located in a mountain valley called Valle de la Ermita () in the south-central part of the country. Guatemala City is the site of the native Maya civilization, Mayan city of Kaminaljuyu in Mesoamerica, which was occupied primarily between 1500 BCE and 1200 CE. The present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Guatemala earthquake, 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks. It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy General of Guatemala; which itself was part of the larger Viceroyalty of New Spain in imperial Spanish America and remained und ...
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El Quiché Department
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Chimaltenango Department
Chimaltenango is a department of Guatemala. The capital is Chimaltenango. Geography Located to the east are Guatemala Department, home to Guatemala City, and Sacatepéquez Department, while also bordered by Quiché Department and Baja Verapaz Department to the north, Escuintla Department and Suchitepéquez Department to the south, and Sololá Department to the west. The capital of Chimaltenango is located about 54 kilometers away from Guatemala City. In addition to the city of Chimaltenango, the department contains the towns of Santa Apolonia (known for its ceramics), San Juan Comalapa, and Patzún (known for its elaborate Corpus Christi celebrations in June). Chimaltenango is also home to the Maya civilization ruins of Iximché and Mixco Viejo, in addition to many smaller sites. Demographics As of the 2018 census, the population of Chimaltenango department was 615,776. The majority of the people in the department are of Cakchiquel Maya descent. The department has an ...
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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, its suburbs and other municipalities. The department covers a surface area of , and had a population of 3,015,081 at the 2018 census. Municipalities # Amatitlán # Chinautla # Chuarrancho # Fraijanes # Guatemala City # Mixco # Palencia Palencia () is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Palencia. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in the northern half of ... # San José del Golfo # San José Pinula # San Juan Sacatepéquez # San Miguel Petapa # San Pedro Ayampuc # San Pedro Sacatepéquez # San Raymundo # Santa Catarina Pinula # Villa Canales # Villa Nueva References External links * {{Authority control Departments of Guatemala ...
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Motagua River
The Motagua River () is a river in Guatemala. It rises in the Western Highlands of Guatemala and runs in an easterly direction to the Gulf of Honduras. The Motagua River basin covers an area of and is the largest in Guatemala. The Motagua River valley contains sources of jadeitite, which has been used by many Indigenous communities that have inhabited the region. The Motagua River is also one of the most plastic-emitting rivers in the world, contributing around two percent of global plastic pollution emissions into oceans annually. Conservation efforts have been driven by the government and non-governmental organizations to ensure safe water and clean oceans. Course The river begins in the Western Highlands of Guatemala and runs along the Atlantic slope. Traveling in an easterly direction, it passes through 14 of Guatemala's departments and contains seven distinct ecoregions. Along its course, water flows in from 29 other major rivers. The final few kilometres of the river ...
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Sierra De Chuacús
The Sierra de Chuacús is situated in the Guatemalan highlands, central highlands of Guatemala, and runs southeast from El Quiché to Baja Verapaz. Its northwestern border is marked by the Chixoy River basin in Uspantán, which separates it from the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Its eastern border is marked by the Salamá River which separates it from the Sierra de las Minas. Its southeastern border is defined by the Motagua River valley. The main crest of the Sierra the Chuacús is located along the El Quiché and Baja Verapáz border, and extends at an elevation above 2,100 m for more than 50 km. Its highest peak reaches up to 2504 m. Located between the Motagua Fault and the Chixoy-Polochic Fault, the Chuacús mountains were formed by complex tectonic and geological processes that started in the Late Cretaceous. References See also

*Geography of Guatemala *Guatemalan highlands Mountain ranges of Guatemala, Chuacus {{Guatemala-geo-stub ...
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