Tacaná is a town and
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in the
Guatemala
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n
department of
San Marcos.
History

In 1690,
Tejutla had a large area and included the modern municipalities of
Comitancillo,
Ixchiguán,
Concepción Tutuapa
Concepción Tutuapa () is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It had a population of 49,363 according to the census of 2002 and of the 2018 census there is a total population of 68,148.
History
Spanish colony
...
,
Sipacapa,
Sibinal,
Tajumulco, Tacaná and part of what is now
San Miguel Ixtahuacán. According to the historical writings from ''Recordación Florida'' of
Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, Tejutla belonged to
Quetzaltenango Department and it was a "prosperous land with rich weathers and comfortable forest with enough water".
Tejutla was an important commercial and religious center; in August 1767, Joseph Domingo Hidalgo described Santiago Tejutla as "El Curato" -i.e., the focal center of commerce of all the towns that were around it− in the ''Gaceta de Guatemala'', the official newspaper of the times. Then, in the last quarter of the 18th century, bishop Dr.
Pedro Cortés y Larraz, who arrived from
Cuilco
Cuilco is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango. It is located in the Cuchumatanes mountains in the south-western portion of Huehuetenango.
Description
The municipality covers a total area of . The dirt road connectin ...
in 1770 as part of the inspection he was doing of the Guatemalan dioceses, called Tejutla "Santiago en la Cima del Monte" (English: Santiago at the top of the hill" and reported that there were "sixty four families who lived very well" in the area.
The Central American United Provinces constitution from 11 October 1821, showed Tejutla under modern San Marcos jurisdiction for the very first time.
In 1870 Tejutla reached "Villa" category and, due to its development, its authorities requested to the
House of Representatives of Guatemala to be named a Department capital. The department was going to have the municipalities mentioned above, along with the modern municipalities of
Cuilco
Cuilco is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango. It is located in the Cuchumatanes mountains in the south-western portion of Huehuetenango.
Description
The municipality covers a total area of . The dirt road connectin ...
,
Santa Bárbara and San Gaspar, Huehuetenango, from the modern
Huehuetenango Department. Besides, in those days,
Motocintla,
Cacahuatán and
Tapachula—which would go definitively to
Mexico
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in 1892 due to the
Herrera-Mariscal treaty— were under the jurisdiction of the
Mercedarian
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convent located in Tejutla. Furthermore, Tejutla even had House representatives of its own in those days.
But power shifted when the conservatives led by Field Marshal
Vicente Cerna were defeated by the liberal forces of generals
Miguel Garcia Granados and
Justo Rufino Barrios
Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón (19 July 1835 – 2 April 1885) was a Guatemalan politician and military general who served as President of Guatemala from 1873 to his death in 1885. He was known for his liberal reforms and his attempts to reun ...
−who was a
San Lorenzo native; once the liberals were in power, the expelled the regular clergy from Guatemala and abolished mandatory tithing for the
secular clergy
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, leaving Tejutla without their main administrative and leadership support, the curato. In fact, Barrios government confiscated monasteries, large extensions of farm land, sugar mills and Indian doctrines from
regular orders and then distributed it to his liberal friend and comrades, who became large landowners in the area.
Climate
Tacaná has temperate climate (
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: ''Cwb'').
See also
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La Aurora International Airport
La Aurora International Airport (, ) serves Guatemala City, Guatemala. It is located south of Guatemala City's center and from Antigua Guatemala. It is administered by the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (Guatemala), General Directora ...
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Tapachula International Airport
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Volcán Tacaná
The volcano Tacaná is the second highest peak in Central America at , located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas of western Guatemala and southern Mexico. It is also known in Mexico as ''Volcán Tacina''.
Geography
The volcano is located within t ...
Notes and references
References
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Municipalities of the San Marcos Department