Uspantán

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title: "Uspantán" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-the-quiché-department"] topic_path: "general/municipalities-of-the-quiche-department" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uspantán" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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image_captionAmphitheater and Cathedral overlooking parque central after a rain. (2007)
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subdivision_type2Municipality
subdivision_name2San Miguel Uspantán
government_typeMunicipal
leader_titleAlcalde
leader_nameVíctor Hugo Figueroa
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population_as_ofCensus 2018
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population_urban6664
population_blank1_titleEthnicities
population_blank1Uspantek, K'iche', Ixil, Q’eqchi’, Ladino
population_blank2_titleReligions
population_blank2Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya
coordinates
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Uspantán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. It is one of the largest municipalities of El Quiché and stretches from the mountainous highlands in the South to the tropical lowlands in the North. The municipal seat is in Villa de San Miguel Uspantán with a population of 2,800. The birthplace of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a community named Laj Chimel, is located Uspantán not far from the municipal seat. Completion of paving on the road in from Chichicastenango has brought a small tourist boom to the town.

The municipality includes the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chitinamit, believed to be Jakawitz, the first capital of the K'iche' Maya.

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  1. [https://www.citypopulation.de/en/guatemala/admin/ Citypopulation.de] Population of departments and municipalities in Guatemala
  2. Sharer & Traxler 2006, p.622.
  3. Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. Item 1005.

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