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    Quiché (Spanish pronunciation: [kiˈtʃe]) is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples,...
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    Santa Cruz del Quiché is a city, with a population of 78,279 (2018 census), in Guatemala. It serves as the capital of the El Quiché department and the...
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  • reserve is a 450 km2 (170 sq mi) protected area in the department of El Quiché. It is also known as Biósfera Ixil, and is located in the North of the municipality...
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  • Uspantán mine (category Quiché Department)
    Uspantán in Quiché Department. The mine has reserves amounting to 40 million tonnes of ore grading 1.25% nickel. Uspantán, Departamento del Quiché, Guatemala...
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  • San Juan Cotzal (category Municipalities of the Quiché Department)
    koˈtsal]) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. San Juan Cotzal is part of the Ixil Community, along with Santa María Nebaj...
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    article at [[:es:Departamento de Petén]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Departamento de Petén}} to the...
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    Qʼumarkaj (category Quiché Department)
    Cumarcaj or Kumarcaaj) is an archaeological site in the southwest of the El Quiché department of Guatemala. Qʼumarkaj is also known as Utatlán, the Nahuatl...
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    jurídico y social del turismo en Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, departamento del Quiché. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala:...
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    Santa María Nebaj (category Municipalities of the Quiché Department)
    to Nebaj) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Santa María Nebaj is part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal...
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    the south by Zacapa, El Progreso, and Baja Verapaz, and to the west by El Quiché. Also in Alta Verapaz are the towns of Chisec, San Pedro Carchá and San...
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    The Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) which in turn are divided into 340 municipalities. The departments are...
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    commercial city. The largest Native American group in the state is the K'iche' (Quiché) Maya people. The department contains a number of Pre-Columbian ruins, including...
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    Madrid: Imprenta Helénica. 1924. Popol Vuh: las antiguas historias del quiché. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 1947. Título de los señores de Totonicapán...
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  • gatherers.[page needed] Sites from around 6500 BC have been discovered in the Quiché department in the Highlands, as well as in Sipacate and Escuintla on the...
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    2 February 1838, Quetzaltenango joined together with Huehuetenango, El Quiché, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, Sololá, Suchitepéquez and Totonicapán to form the...
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    Army of the Poor (E.G.P.) entered the forests of Ixcán to the north of Quiché Department from southern Mexico in January 1972, the same year in which...
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    Maya Kʼicheʼ poet Humberto Ak'ab'al (1952-2019), who writes in Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) and in Spanish. Momostenango borders to the North with the municipalities...
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    Sacapulas (category Municipalities of the Quiché Department)
    Sacapulas is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Worried about the defection of the aj K’ub’ul family chief -who had taken...
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    borders with the Mexican state of Chiapas in the north and west; with El Quiché in the east, and Totonicapán, Quetzaltenango and San Marcos in the south...
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    to Guatemala City, and Sacatepéquez Department, while also bordered by Quiché Department and Baja Verapaz Department to the north, Escuintla Department...
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    against the indigenous Maya population, particularly in the departments of Quiché, Huehuetenango, and Baja Verapaz. According to the 1999 report by the UN-sponsored...
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    de Colombia" [Indigenous Population of Colombia] (PDF) (in Spanish). Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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    and northern El Salvador Ixil, El Quiché, Guatemala Jacaltec (Jakaltek), northwestern Guatemala K'iche' (Quiché), El Salvador and Guatemala Kaqchikel...
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    by the people by 3500 BC. Sites dating to 6500 BC have been found in the Quiché region in the Highlands, and Sipacate and Escuintla on the central Pacific...
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    OCLC 761538187. Christenson, Allen J. (2007) [2003]. "Popul Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People" (PDF). Mesoweb articles. Mesoweb: An Exploration of Mesoamerican...
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    July 2017 at the Wayback Machine INAH, Mexico, Retrieved 25 July 2017. Departamento De La Estadistica Nacional Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine...
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    and the culture of Guatemala. In 1917 he wrote the libretto for the opera Quiché Vinak. Along with Adrian Recinos, he founded the legal journal The Law,...
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  • Semifinalists Alta Verapaz - Alejandra Soria Chimaltenango - Emely López Departamento Guatemala - Melanie Aranky Escuintla - Cindy Samayoa Zacapa - Claudia...
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    region is found in Chisec and Cobán, in Alta Verapaz Department; Ixcán in Quiché Department, and Sayaxché, Petén Department, where Palmas del Ixcán, S.A...
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    and Sonora (e.g. "Utatlán" was Q’umarka’aj, becoming modern Santa Cruz de Quiché; "Guatemala" comes from Iximché, the capital of the kaqchiles) and Suchitlán...
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