Sibinal
Sign in to saveSibinal is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. Its name comes from mam tziben (English: "Writing" and nal (English: Bernard), meaning "Bernard writings" It was founded in February 1799. It is a mountainous municipality at an altitude about 2500 m near the Mexican-Guatemalan border. The village of Sibinal is one of the points for climbing towards the Volcano Tacaná.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Sibinal is referenced by 33 other articles, and connects out to San Marcos, Ixchiguán and Mexico.
The entry is geolocated on the map in GT, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Guatemala–Mexico border crossings and Municipalities of the San Marcos Department.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Sibinal
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Guatemala
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2018
- Settlement.population_total
- 17,000
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Guatemala
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Guatemala
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 25px San Marcos
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Amílcar Robles Escalante
- Settlement.leader_party
- UNE
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
- Settlement.blank_info
- Cwb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- San Marcos Department
- Population
- 17069
- Area
- 176
- Elevation
- 1510
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Chiapas
- Dialing code
- 502
- Patron saint
- Archangel Michael
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- postal code
- 12008
- inception
- 1799-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Spanish colony
- After independence from Spain
- Climate
- Geographic location
- See also
- Notes and references
- References
- Bibliography
Sibinal is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. Its name comes from mam tziben (English: "Writing" and nal (English: Bernard), meaning "Bernard writings" It was founded in February 1799. It is a mountainous municipality at an altitude about 2500 m near the Mexican-Guatemalan border. The village of Sibinal is one of the points for climbing towards the Volcano Tacaná.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sibinal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
2 mapped locations