San Cristóbal Totonicapán is a town, with a population of 36,119,Citypopulation.de
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in the Totonicapán department in the South-Western region of

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. It celebrates its titular party on 25 July. Spanish-born businessman Juan Bautista Gutiérrez migrated to San Cristóbal Totonicapán in the 1920s and began some of his first business ventures there, running a bookstore and making candles. He was eventually elected mayor for a time and helped introduce electricity and other viable infrastructure to the then-small indigenous town, including a bridge over the

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that is still in good, working condition and actively utilized by the community. In addition, his children, including his daughter

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, were all born in San Cristóbal Totonicapán.

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Municipalities of the Totonicapán Department {{Guatemala-geo-stub