Santa Cruz El Chol
Encyclopedia
Santa Cruz El Chol is a municipality
in the Baja Verapaz
department
of Guatemala
. It is situated at 1008 m above sea level
. It contains 8817 people.[1]
It covers a terrain of 140 km². An annual festival is held from December 6-December 8.
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 Baja Verapaz
Baja Verapaz
Baja Verapaz is a department in Guatemala. The capital is Salamá.Baja Verapaz houses the Mario Dary Biotope Preserve, preserving the native flora and fauna of the region, especially the endangered national bird of Guatemala, the Resplendent Quetzal....
department
Departments of Guatemala
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of 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...
. It is situated at 1008 m 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 8817 people.[1]
It covers a terrain of 140 km². An annual festival is held from December 6-December 8.