Colotenango
Encyclopedia
Colotenango is a municipality
in the Guatemala
n department
of Huehuetenango. It is situated at 1590 m (5,216.5 ft) above sea level
. It contains 14,000 people. It covers a terrain of 71 km² (27.4 sq mi). The annual festival is February 12-15.
Colotenango has two holy sites called Tuikalajan and Tuisanmarcos.
community whose residents speak the Mayan Mam language
.http://www.inforpressca.com/colotenango/cultura.php Two-thirds of the residents are Catholic, while about thirty percent are Evangelica.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
n department
Departments of Guatemala
||Guatemala is divided into 22 departments :#Alta Verapaz#Baja Verapaz#Chimaltenango#Chiquimula#Petén#El Progreso#El Quiché#Escuintla#Guatemala#Huehuetenango#Izabal#Jalapa#Jutiapa#Quetzaltenango#Retalhuleu#Sacatepéquez...
of Huehuetenango. It is situated at 1590 m (5,216.5 ft) above sea level
Sea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...
. It contains 14,000 people. It covers a terrain of 71 km² (27.4 sq mi). The annual festival is February 12-15.
Colotenango has two holy sites called Tuikalajan and Tuisanmarcos.
Demographics
Colotenango is traditionally a MayaMaya peoples
The Maya people constitute a diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term...
community whose residents speak the Mayan Mam language
Mam language
Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480,000 speakers as of 2002, spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and San Marcos....
.http://www.inforpressca.com/colotenango/cultura.php Two-thirds of the residents are Catholic, while about thirty percent are Evangelica.
Aldeas
Colotenango includes the following aldeas (towns): Caniche, Colotenango (el pueblo), El Granadillo, Ical, Ixconlaj, La Barranca, La Lagunita, La Vega, Llano Grande, Los Naranjales, Luminoche, Sacuil, Siete Caminos, Tixel, Tohlac, Tuitzloch, Tuitzquian and Xemal.External links
- in Spanish
- http://www.inforpressca.com/colotenango/mapa.pdf Municipal map.