Chicamán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.
Chicamán | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 15°20′54″N 90°47′58″W / 15.34833°N 90.79944°W | |
Country | Guatemala |
Department | El Quiché |
Municipality | Chicamán |
Established as a municipality | 1984 |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal |
• Mayor | Diego Us (PP) |
Area | |
• Municipality | 199 sq mi (516 km2) |
Elevation | 4,820 ft (1,470 m) |
Highest elevation | 7,306 ft (2,227 m) |
Lowest elevation | 1,601 ft (488 m) |
Population (Census 2002) | |
• Municipality | 25,280 |
• Urban | 1,893 |
• Ethnicities | Poqomchi' Uspantek K'iche' K'ekchi Ladino |
• Religions | Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy[1] Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
Climate | Cfb |
Website | http://www.inforpressca.com/chicamanq/ |
Tourists may visit the Canyon El Barbudo and the Quatro Chorros waterfalls.[2] Its population in 2023 is 44,728.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Map". Mayan Orthodoxy. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ "Turismo en el Municipio de Chicamán, Quiché". Inforpressca.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ "Chicamán (Municipality, Guatemala) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2023-11-03.