Santa Catalina la Tinta is a municipality in the Guatemalan depairtment o Alta Verapaz. It is locatit in the het Polochic River glen. It wis oreeginally pairt o the municipality o Panzós, but wis gien separate municipal status in 1999. La Tinta is the commercial centre o the lawer Polochic glen, an merchants an shoppers clog the toun's streets especially on the offeecial mercat days o Tuesdays an Thursdays. The toun o Santa Catalina la Tinta is locatit at 110 km frae Cobán an 278 km frae Guatemala Ceety.
Santa Catalina la Tinta La Tinta | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
 Central pairk o Santa Catalina la Tinta | |
  Santa Catalina la Tinta Location in Guatemala | |
| Coordinates: 15°18′N 89°55′W | |
| Kintra |  Guatemala |
| Depairtment | Alta Verapaz |
| Municipality | Santa Catalina la Tinta |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Municipal |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 196 km2 (76 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 195 m (640 ft) |
| Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
| • Municipality | 27,027 |
| • Urban | n/d |
| • Ethnicities | Q'eqchi' Poqomchi' Ladino |
| • Releegions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Guatemala) |
| Patron Saunt | Saunt Catherine o Alexandria (November 24–28) |
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