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    The Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, in western Guatemala, is the highest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America. The name "Cuchumatán" is derived from...
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    Grijalva who visited the area in 1518. This river is born in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in the department of Huehuetenango in Guatemala, where it is known...
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    Huehuetenango, a department of Guatemala. It is located in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes at 2,300 m above sea level. The municipality covers a total area...
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    tributaries of the upper Usumacinta River and the foothills of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. The Lakandon Chʼol of the time of the Spanish conquest should...
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  • 1975. It was rediscovered in 2017 at an amphibian reserve in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Females of the species grow up to 65 mm long and are a bright...
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    where it empties into the Presa de la Angostura reservoir. The Selegua River has its source in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and flows northwards, crossing...
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    Chuacús, Guatemala Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala Sierra del Merendón, Guatemala and Honduras Sierra Madre de Chiapas, México, Guatemala, Honduras...
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  • speak the Q'anjob'al language. Santa Eulalia is situated in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes at 2,300 metres (7,500 ft) above sea level. The annual celebrations...
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    Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango. It is situated in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes at an elevation of 2,500 m (about 8,000 ft). The municipality...
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    of Huehuetenango and El Quiché of Guatemala in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. The Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica and the westernmost part of...
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    Guatemala and is known from the Montañas de Cuilco, near the Mexican border, and from the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Its range might extend into Mexico....
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    the north-central Chiapas, Mexico, and the adjacent Guatemalan Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. This species is named after Norman Hartweg, American herpetologist...
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  • in pine-oak and cloud forests on Sierra de las Minas, the Cuilco Mountains, Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and Sierra de Xucaneb, at elevations of 1,200–2...
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    eastwards from Chiapas into Guatemala, reaching their highest in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Their major pre-Columbian population centres were in the largest...
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    Pan-American Highway crosses the Continental Divide again, and into the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountains. From Huehuetenango to Chimaltenango is roughly 160 km...
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  • Guatemala and Mexico, the plant grows on limestone bluffs in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range. It often becomes dominant in its ecosystem, and...
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  • found in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and eastern Oaxaca in Mexico, Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in western Guatemala as well as Sierra de las Minas in eastern...
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  • The Río Nentón is a river in Guatemala. From its sources in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range of Huehuetenango, the river flows in a north-westerly...
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  • and is known from its type locality near San Juan Ixcoy in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, and possibly from another, as yet unconfirmed record. Common...
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    a species endemic to Guatemala, in the Central Highlands, the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, and Mt. Tacana on the border with Mexico, where it grows in open...
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    fall of Zaculeu various Spanish expeditions crossed into the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and engaged in the gradual and complex conquest of the Chuj and...
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    by the central highlands and the mountain ranges of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Sierra de Chuacús, and the foothills of the volcanic mountain range...
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    occur in Chiapas Mexico and in parts of Guatemala including the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range in the west, the plateaus of central Guatemala...
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  • separates it from the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Its eastern border is marked by the Salamá River which separates it from the Sierra de las Minas. Its southeastern...
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  • Thumbnail for Ixcán River
    Guatemala. The river flows northwards from its sources in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range in Huehuetenango, marks the border with El Quiché...
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    of Maya Q'anjob'al descent. San Juan Ixcoy is located in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes range and borders with the municipalities of Soloma and Santa...
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    Kʼatepan to be the most important ceremonial site in the northern Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountains. A preliminary map of Kʼatepan was produced in 2007...
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  • species of frogs in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in western Guatemala. Its specific name refers to Tecun Uman,...
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    tributaries of the upper Usumacinta River and the foothills of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Most of the Lakandon Ch'ol were forcibly relocated to the Huehuetenango...
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    known from the cloud forests of the mountains of Sierra de las Minas and Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in Guatemala. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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