Huehuetenango Depairtment
Huehuetenango is ane o the 22 depairtments o Guatemala. It is situatit in the wastren heichlands an shares borders wi México in the north an wast; wi El Quiché in the east, wi Totonicapán, Quetzaltenango, an San Marcos tae the sooth. The caipital is the ceety o Huehuetenango.[2]
Huehuetenango | |
|---|---|
 Banner  Coat airms | |
 Depairtment o Huehuetenango | |
| Coordinates: 15°18′51″N 91°28′33″W / 15.31417°N 91.47583°W | |
| Kintra |  Guatemala |
| Depairtment |  Huehuetenango |
| Caipital | Huehuetenango |
| Municipalities | 31 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Depaortmental |
| Area | |
| • Depairtment | 7403 km2 (2,858 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 3352 m (10,997 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 300 m (1,000 ft) |
| Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
| • Depairtment | 846,544 |
| • Urban | 192,099 |
| • Ethnicities | Mam Q'anjob'al Chuj Jakaltek Tektik Awakatek Chalchitek Akatek K'iche Ladino |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
| Time zone | -6 |
Huehuetenango's ethnic composition is ane o the maist diverse in Guatemala. While the Mam are predominant in the depairtment, ither Maya groups are the Q'anjob'al, Chuj, Jakaltek, Tektik, Awakatek, Chalchitek, Akatek an K'iche'. Each o thir nine Maya ethnic groups speaks thair awn leid.[3][4]
Name
eeditThe depairtment o Huehuetenango taks its name frae the ceety o the same name, which serves as the depairtmental caipital. The name is derivit frae the Nahuatl leid o central Mexico, gien bi the indigenous allees o the Spaingie conquistadors durin the Spaingie Conquest o Guatemala. It is uisually said tae mean "place o the elders" but mey be a corruption o "place o the ahuehuete trees".[5]
Notes
eedit- ↑ "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". INE. 2002. Archived frae the original on 20 October 2008.
- ↑ ITMB 2005.
- ↑ "Departamentos de Guatemala - Huehuetenango". Servicio de Información Municipal (SIM). Retrieved 2008. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help). Rouanet et al 1992, pp.4-5. Rodríguez L., p.v. Díaz Camposeco et al 2008, pp.17, 19. - ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedEthnologueAkateko - ↑ Rouanet et al 1992, p.2.
Freemit airtins
eedit- Información y Noticias de Huehuetenango. Archived 2021-04-25 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie)