Huehuetenango | |
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Depairtment o Huehuetenango | |
Coordinates: 15°18′51″N 91°28′33″W / 15.31417°N 91.47583°W | |
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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 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'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]
The 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]