The Cakchiquiel are a group of indigenous people of Mayan descent, native to the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. They subsist agriculturally, and their culture reflects a fusion of Mayan and Spanish influences. Cakchiquiel is also the name of their language. The Maya civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization, which extended throughout the northern Central American region which includes the present-day nations of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras and El Salvador, as well as the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán peninsula states of Quintana Roo, Campeche... The Cakchiquiel language (also Cakchiquel language or Kaqchikel language) is a member of the Quichean-Mamean branch of the Mayan language family. ...
Sent out by Hernan Cortés with 120 horsemen, 300 footsoldiers and several hundred Cholula and Tlascala auxiliaries, he was engaged in the conquest of the highlands of Guatemala from 1523 to 1527.
At first Alvarado allied himself with the Cakchiquiel nation in his conquest of their traditional rivals the Quiché nation, but his cruelties alienated the Cakchiquiel, and he needed several years to stamp out resistance in the region.
Pedro de Alvarado led the first effort by Spanish forces to extend their dominion to the future El Salvador in June 1524.
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