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Chinique
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Chinique, from the Kʼicheʼ language «chinic´aj taka´aj», is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. In 1892 Alfred Maudslay and his wife Anne reported that the place was a small group of houses made from adobe with thatched roofs. Its population as of 2023 is 14,052.

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Guatemala
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bottom
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Location in Guatemala
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Country
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25px Guatemala
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Department
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25px El Quiché
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Municipality
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Chinique de las Flores
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Municipal
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Mayor
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Imperial
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41
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Census 2002
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8009
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2290
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Ethnicities
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K'iche', Ladino

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Chinique, from the Kʼicheʼ language «chinic´aj taka´aj», is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. In 1892 Alfred Maudslay and his wife Anne reported that the place was a small group of houses made from adobe with thatched roofs. Its population as of 2023 is 14,052.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chinique” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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