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.
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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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- Department
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- 25px San Marcos
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- Mayor
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- David Pérez
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- 24000
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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
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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.
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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