Uspantán
Uspantán is a municipality in the Guatemalan depairtment o El Quiché. It is ane o the lairgest municipalities o El Quiché an stretches frae the muntainous heichlands in the sooth tae the tropical lawlands in the North. The municipal seat is in Villa de San Miguel Uspantán wi a population o 2,800. The birthplace o Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a commonty namit Laj Chimel, is locatit Uspantán no far frae the municipal seat. Completion o pavin on the road in frae Chichicastenango haes brocht a sma tourist boom tae the toun.
Uspantán | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 15°20′45″N 90°52′10″W / 15.34583°N 90.86944°W | |
Kintra | Guatemala |
Depairtment | El Quiché |
Municipality | San Miguel Uspantán |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Municipal |
• Alcalde | Victor Hugo Figeroa Pérez |
Area | |
• Municipality | 865 km2 (334 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1825 m (5,988 ft) |
Highest elevation | 2500 m (8,200 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 500 m (1,600 ft) |
Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
• Municipality | 41,892 |
• Urban | 4,198 |
• Ethnicities | Uspantek K'iche' Ixil K'ekchi Ladino |
• Releegions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
Website | http://www.inforpressca.com/uspantan/ |
The municipality includes the pre-Columbie Maya airchaeological steid o Chitinamit, believit tae be Jakawitz, the first caipital o the K'iche' Maya.[2][3]
Notes
eedit- ↑ "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". INE. 2002. Archived frae the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
- ↑ Sharer & Traxler 2006, p.622.
- ↑ Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. Item 1005.
References
eedit- Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. "Base de Datos Sitios Arqueológicos" (PDF). Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 26 Mey 2012. Retrieved 23 Januar 2010.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link) (in Spaingie)
- Sharer, Robert J.; with Loa p. Traxler (2006). The Ancient Maya (6th (fully revised) ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4817-9. OCLC 57577446.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)