Sipacate is a
resort town
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and municipality on the
Pacific
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coast of
Guatemala
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, in
Escuintla Department
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about west of
Puerto San José. It is promoted as a venue for
surfing
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. Being roughly in the center of the Guatemalan coastline, it is used as a breakpoint for
storm warnings. The
Sipicate-Naranjo National Park is located east of the town.
The municipality was formerly a part of
La Gomera Municipality just north of Sipacate.
Archaeology
Some very early human settlements are documented in Sipacate, connected with early agriculture.
In sum, sediments sampled in the Sipacate locality appear to document two distinct waves of deforestation associated with early horticulture. The earliest began shortly after 3500 cal B.C. and involved multiple episodes of forest clearance over the next 800 years. The second began after 1700 cal B.C. and coincides with the archaeologically documented presence of Early Formative populations.[Hector Neff, Deborah M. Pearsall, John G. Jones, Bárbara Arroyo, Shawn K. Collins, Dorothy E. Freidel]
''Early Maya Adaptive Patterns: Mid-Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evidence from Pacific Guatemala.''
Latin American Antiquity, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 2006)
Climate
Sipacate has tropical climate (
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Geographic location
Sipacate is surrounded by
Escuintla
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Departament municipalities and by the
Pacific Ocean
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.
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Notable people
* Tránsito Montepeque - Guatemalan international football player
References
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Populated places in Guatemala
Early agriculture in Mesoamerica