Uspantán

Uspantán
Municipality
Uspantán Location in Guatemala
Coordinates: 15°20′45″N 90°52′10″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)
• 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/

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.

The municipality includes the pre-Columbie Maya airchaeological steid o Chitinamit, believit tae be Jakawitz, the first caipital o the K'iche' Maya.

References

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)

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