San Miguel Petapa is a municipality

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 department

Departments of Guatemala

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 of Guatemala

Guatemala

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, located south of Guatemala City

Guatemala City

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. It has a population of 94,228 according to the 2002 census.

Brief Historical Accounts

Despite their movement in the 18th Century to its present place, the religious relics of the Roman Catholic Church were taken from the original settlement, where its Roman Catholic population it highly proud of extending an invitation to visit the "Señor Sepultado" (The Buried Lord) image, which has a five-century existence.

San Miguel Petapa also has two main traditional holidays, one of which is celebrated in February and is appointed to Our Lady of the Rosary. Besides the solemn procession, there are praises appearances (popular religious theatrical plays). The other holiday is dedicated to Saint Michael (Archangel).

A tradition amongst Ladinos (mestizo people) in the municipality, is the Flowers Dance. It consists of a dance in which all contestants are rolling up, first, and unrolling later in a specific tree. Meanwhile music and recited verses are executed at the same time. This tradition was begun in the old Spanish capital, Santiago de Guatemala (the Antigua Guatemala of present-day) from where it was extended to the nearest villages. Years after, was taken to the new capital, Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion. Today this folk dance is executed in other municipalities of the department of Guatemala, such as San Raymundo, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San Jose Pinula and Villa Nueva.

Sports

Deportivo Petapa

Deportivo Petapa

Deportivo Petapa is a Guatemalan football team playing in the Primera División de Ascenso, after being relegated in 2009.It is based in San Miguel Petapa.Deportivo Petapa has won their promotion back to the top league after defeating La Gomera 2-1, with Sandro Zamboni scoring both goals.Petapa...

 football club play in the second tier of Guatemalan football

Primera División de Ascenso

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. Their home venue is the Estadio Julio Armando Cobar

Estadio Municipal de San Miguel Petapa

Estadio Municipal de San Miguel Petapa, or Estadio Julio Armando Cobar, is a multi-use stadium in San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala.With artificial turf surface, it is used mostly for football and is the home stadium of Deportivo Petapa. The capacity of the stadium is 7,000 people-External links:**...

. Also, Deportivo Mixco

Deportivo Mixco

Club Social y Deportivo Mixco is a Guatemalan football club based in Mixco, Guatemala.They had played their home games in the Clausura 2010 in the Estadio Julio Armando Cobar in Petapa, since plans for construction of the Estadio de La Tierra de Campeones are in an advanced stage.In the Apertura...

have used the stadium while a new stadium of their own was built.