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Uspantán
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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.
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Uspantán | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 15°20′45″N 90°52′10″W | |
Kintra | ![]() |
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/ |
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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]