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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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    City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word Kʼicheʼ comes from the language of the same name, which means "many trees". Quiché has historically been...
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  • Guadarrama, near Madrid Santa Cruz (canton), Costa Rica, in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica Santa Cruz del Quiché, city in Guatemala Santa Cruz, Lempira, a municipality...
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    la Santa Cruz del Quiché ) also called Santa Cruz del Quiché Cathedral is a religious building that is located in the town of Santa Cruz del Quiché, in...
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  • (disambiguation), or Quiché, several uses Quiché Department, in Guatemala Quiché Airport, Santa Cruz del Quiché Quiches District, in Peru Quiche, a Tokyo Mew...
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    (also called by its Nahuatl name Utatlán) near the modern town of Santa Cruz del Quiché. During his rule the Kʼicheʼ ruled large areas of highland Guatemala...
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    Qʼumarkaj (category Quiché Department)
    badly damaged by the looting of stone to build the nearby town of Santa Cruz del Quiché. The major structures of Qʼumarkaj were laid out around a plaza...
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  • Totonicapán Momostenango Central Guatemala: Santa María Chiquimula San Antonio Ilotenango Santa Cruz del Quiché Chichicastenango Mexico: Marqués de Comillas...
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    Jacaltenango, San Mateo Ixtatán, and Santa Cruz Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín...
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  • ruins of the city can still be seen, just a short distance from Santa Cruz del Quiché. One of the main missions of the Spanish clergy during the conquest...
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    Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán. It was erected 27 April 1967, as the Diocese of Santa Cruz del Quiché, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Sololá. It was...
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  • Jacaltenango, San Mateo Ixcatán, and Santa Cruz Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín...
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  • Quiché Airport (IATA: AQB, ICAO: MGQC) is an airport serving Santa Cruz del Quiché, the capital of Quiché Department, Guatemala. The airport is just south...
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    from west to east, of part of the Guatemalan departments of Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta Verapaz and the entire department of Izabal. It extends roughly 15750 km2...
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  • wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad AQB, the IATA code for Quiché Airport, Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Joyabaj (category Municipalities of the Quiché Department)
    municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. It is located about 50 kilometers from Santa Cruz del Quiché, in the Sierra de Chuacús mountains. Joyabaj...
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    phonetic rendering of an oral recitation performed in or around Santa Cruz del Quiché shortly following Pedro de Alvarado's 1524 conquest. By comparing...
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  • Cunén (category Municipalities of the Quiché Department)
    is temperate. It is located 68 km from the departmental capital, Santa Cruz del Quiché, as measured by paved road. Tourist attractions include Las Grutas...
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    Quetzaltenango 14 GT-09 Quetzaltenango 1,951 799,101 24 Quiché 7 GT-14 Santa Cruz del Quiché 8,378 949,261 21 Retalhuleu 15 GT-11 Retalhuleu 1,856 326...
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    Quiché). The Kʼicheʼ culture was at its pinnacle at the time of the Spanish conquest. Qʼumarkaj, near the present-day city of Santa Cruz del Quiché,...
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    Marlin Maldonado (born March 29, 1985, in Santa Cruz del Quiché) is a Guatemalan badminton player. She won bronze at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean...
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    to De León, who may have gathered the information from elders in Santa Cruz del Quiché, the feathered serpent gripped Tohil in his jaws to carry him safely...
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    505 Retalhuleu 21 Santa Catarina Pinula 80,582 Guatemala 22 San José Pinula 79,844 Guatemala 23 Santa Cruz del Quiché 78,279 El Quiché 24 Mazatenango 77...
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    Jocopilas 578 37 990 65.73 19 Santa Cruz del Quiché 271 99 749 368.07 20 Uspantán 865 74 244 85.83 21 Zacualpa 336 40 003 119.06 Quiché 8 174 1 082 234 132.39...
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  • elected to establish a sister city relationship with the town of Santa Cruz del Quiche in war-torn Guatemala...Last August, at Reboredo's urging, West...
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  • Catarina Castor (category People from Quiché Department)
    problems in Nebaj, Quiché Department, Guatemala, on December 30, 2012, at the age of 32. She had been flying en route to Santa Cruz del Quiché for ceremony...
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    can be larger than 60 day laborers. From: Martínez Peláez, S. La Patria del Criollo, interpretation essay of Guatemala Colonial reality México. 1990...
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    Pope Pius IX Feast February 5 Attributes spear, palm branch, cross Patronage Mexico City; Nagasaki; Santa Cruz del Quiché; Ozatlán; El Viso del Alcor...
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  • Juan José Gerardi Conedera (category Roman Catholic bishops of Quiché)
    was appointed Bishop of Quiché, but continued working as an Apostolic Administrator in Verapaz. Between 1980 and 1983, El Quiché saw increased levels of...
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    Holy Cross in Santa Cruz del Quiché Cathedral of St. Mark in San Marcos Catedral del Niño Dios de Cuilapa in Santa Rosa de Lima Basílica del Cristo Negro...
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