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    Ciudad Vieja (Spanish pronunciation: [sjuˈðað ˈβjexa]) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. According to the 2018...
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    Ciudad Vieja After the Kaqchikel rebelled against their former allies, the Spanish refounded the capital as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala in...
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    Sacatepéquez Department (category Departments of Guatemala)
    southern area, which is closer to Guatemala City, has the largest population. Alotenango Antigua Guatemala Ciudad Vieja Jocotenango Magdalena Milpas Altas...
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    Guatemala was founded on the site of a Kaqchikel-Maya city, named Iximche, on Monday, July 25, 1524—the day of Saint James—and therefore named Ciudad...
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    first government capital settlement in colonial Guatemala, and its 'second capital', was Ciudad Vieja, established in 1527. The fort was built here due...
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    east, on the site of today's San Miguel Escobar district of Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua Guatemala. This settlement was destroyed by a catastrophic lahar from...
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  • The Zetas Vieja Escuela (English: Old School Zetas) is a Mexican criminal organization that splintered from Los Zetas. It was founded by José Guizar Valencia...
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    This is a list of places in Guatemala. Population data up to number 30 is based on the 2018 census.   Departmental Capital   National Capital and Departmental...
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    capital was moved to Ciudad Vieja on 22 November 1527, as a result of a Kaqchikel attack on Villa de Santiago de Guatemala. Owing to its strategic location...
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    district of Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua Guatemala. The Nahua and Oaxacan allies of the Spanish settled in what is now central Ciudad Vieja, then known...
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    Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala and relocated on the southeast section of the city, forming the "San Pedrito", "Ciudad Vieja" and "Villa de Guadalupe"...
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    Pedro de Alvarado (category Governors of Guatemala)
    many more people; they then surrendered at the new Spanish capital at Ciudad Vieja. On 8 May 1524, Pedro de Alvarado continued southwards to the Pacific...
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    Volcán de Agua (category Mountains of Guatemala)
    destroyed the original capital of Guatemala (now known as Ciudad Vieja) and the city was moved to Antigua Guatemala following this disaster. Among the...
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    la Ciudad de Guatemala (in Spanish). Guatemala: Ignacio Beteta. Morales, César (2010). "Historia del baile de la conquista". Iglesia de Ciudad Vieja (in...
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    April 1525, serving until April 1528. The city he founded, now known as Ciudad Vieja, was later refounded in the location where San Salvador currently is...
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    Mexican Federal Highway 101 from Ciudad Victoria to Matamoros, Tamaulipas From Mexico City to the border with Guatemala, the highway follows Mexican Federal...
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  • The Miss Guatemala 2009 pageant was held on May 25, 2009 at Auditorio Nacionalin the capital city Guatemala City, Guatemala. This year only 24 candidates...
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    Kaqchikel people (category Maya peoples of Guatemala)
    moved to Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua Guatemala. Our Elders Teach Us "Resultados Censo 2018" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Guatemala. Retrieved...
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    Spanish conquest of the Maya (category Colonial Guatemala)
    (2008). "Segundo Asiento Oficial de la Ciudad según Acta" (in Spanish). Ciudad Vieja Sacatepéquez, Guatemala: www.miciudadvieja.com. Archived from the...
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  • Beatriz de la Cueva (category Governors of Guatemala)
    arroyo toward the colonial capital of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Ciudad Vieja) in the valley below (Almolonga), carving a huge scar down the...
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    mayor. He served as mayor of the old city of San Salvador, now known as Ciudad Vieja. The city was refounded in 1528 in its modern location and Diego de Alvarado...
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    List of Maya sites (category Guatemala history-related lists)
    Ixkun, Petén, Guatemala: Exploraciones en una ciudad del alto Mopan, 1985-2005 (edited by J.P. Laporte and H. Mejía) (in Spanish). Guatemala: Atlas Arqueológico...
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    The departments of the Republic of Guatemala are divided into 340 municipalities (Spanish: municipios). The municipalities are listed below, by department...
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    San Pascualito (category Religion in Guatemala)
    appeared in 1650 in a vision of an indigenous Guatemalan man in San Antonio Aguacaliente (modern day Ciudad Vieja). The man was dying from an epidemic fever...
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    Castellanos set out from Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (by now relocated to Ciudad Vieja) on another expedition against the Ixil and Uspantek...
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    de Arte Precolombino e Indígena) is an ethnographic museum located in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay, dedicated to the indigenous cultures of different...
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    Hermógenes López Coarchita (category Deaths by firearm in Guatemala)
    in Guatemala on 16 September 1928 to Ángel López Hernández and Victoria Coarchita Santa Cruz. He was baptized in the parish church in Ciudad Vieja on...
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    2016, Grupo Bravo (Bravo Group), Los Talibanes (The Talibans), and Zetas Vieja Escuela (Old School Zetas) have formed an alliance with the Gulf Cartel...
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    distributed encomienda rights among his supporters. This site is now known as Ciudad Vieja, and is situated 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Suchitoto. The location...
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    Ernesto Cofiño (category People from Guatemala City)
    others the Pediatric Association of Guatemala. For the youth, he promoted the following: Centro Universitario Ciudad Vieja - First Rector (1958) Instituto...
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