Ixchiguán
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Ixchiguán is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. The economy is based on temporary work force on the coffee plantations, respectively on a male migrating work force in Mexico.
Key facts
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- Ixchiguán
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- 200px
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- View of Ixchiguán.
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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 San Marcos
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- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- David Pérez
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- LIDER
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- Metric
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- Climate
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- Cwb
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- 24000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- San Marcos Department
- Population
- 24926
- Area
- 184
- Elevation
- 3185
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- San Marcos
- Official website
- www.inforpressca.com/ixchiguan
- Image
- Traje usado en Ixchiguán I.png
- Dialing code
- 502
- Patron saint
- Saint Christopher
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- postal code
- 12023
- Commons category
- Ixchiguán
- inception
- 1933-08-09
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Spanish colony
- After independence from Spain
- Climate
- Geographic location
- See also
- Notes and references
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Ixchiguán is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. The economy is based on temporary work force on the coffee plantations, respectively on a male migrating work force in Mexico.
Mam, which is one of the Mayan languages of Guatemala, is spoken in Ixchiguán and in the neighborhood of the city. In two or three villages around the city, the indigenous people speak also Kʼicheʼ, another language that belongs to the Mayan languages group.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ixchiguán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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