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Encyclopedia > Chiquimula
Chiquimula

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Motto: La Perla de Oriente
Coordinates: 14°47′N 89°32′W / 14.783, -89.533
Country Guatemala
Department Chiquimula
Foundation 1530
Established as City June 29, 1821
Government
 - Mayor Rolando Arturo Aquino Guerra
(Grand National Alliance)
Area
 - City 372 km²  (143.6 sq mi)
Elevation 423.86 m (1,391 ft)
Time zone Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
Website: http://www.chiquimulaonline.com

Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It serves both as the capital of the department of Chiquimula and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is some 174 km from Guatemala City. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 510 pixelsFull resolution (844 × 538 pixel, file size: 175 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... Image File history File links File links The following pages link to this file: Chiquimula Department ... is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Grand National Alliance (Spanish:Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA)) is a political party in Guatemala. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre or meter is a measure of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ...  CST or UTC-6 The Central Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC during standard time (UTC-6) and five hours during daylight saving time (UTC-5). ... −12 | −11 | −10 | −9:30 | −9 | −8 | −7 | −6 | −5 | −4 | −3:30 | −3 | −2:30 | −2 | −1 | −0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... Guatemala is divided into 22 [1] departments (departamentos): Alta Verapaz Baja Verapaz Chimaltenango Chiquimula Petén El Progreso Quiché Escuintla Guatemala Huehuetenango Izabal Jalapa Jutiapa Quetzaltenango Retalhuleu Sacatepéquez San Marcos Santa Rosa Sololá Suchitepequez Totonicapán Zacapa In addition, Guatemala has in the past claimed that all or part... Chiquimula Chiquimula is a department in Guatemala. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; locally known as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. ...


It is said that the parents of Zacapanecos are in fact the Chiquimultecos.


A municipality of Totonicapán is called Santa María Chiquimula. Totonicapán Totonicapán is a department in Guatemala. ... Welcome sign for Santa María Chiquimula, 2004-04-16 Santa María Chiquimula is a municipality in the Totonicapán department of Guatemala. ...


Chiquimula is beautiful and people walk everywhere because there are little shops everywhere. Family is very important to them. On the 24th of December they get together with their family and have a dinner and exchange gifts at exactly 12:00 am. They dance, party and light a lot of fireworks. If they are Catholic, they do what they call 'Posadas' on the 31st of December then party all through the 1st of January. December 24 is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Firework be merged into this article or section. ... Las Posadas (Spanish for The Inns) is a nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24 which is called Noche Buena (Holy Night). It is a yearly tradition for many Christian Latin Americans and symbolizes the trials which they believe Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...


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Chiquimula - Travel to Guatemala - Viaje a Guatemala (1069 words)
Chiquimula is the cradle of the ch´ortí culture and takes pride in its possession of the traditions strongly rooted in the myths and legends of the country.
With the establishment of the colonial regime the territory of Chiquimula de la Sierra was formed, which included the totality of the present-day departments of Zacapa and Chiquimula, as well as the largest part of the present-day departments of El Progreso, Jalapa and Jutiapa.
Chiquimula has a great number of attractions, but the seven of greatest tradition are Volcán and Laguna de Ipala, Volcán Quezaltepeque, Poza de la Pila, the spa on the Río Jocotán, La Piedra de los Compadres, Cerro de Montecristo and Ruta Histórica del Peregrino.
Blog de Chiquimula - La Perla de Oriente - Cultura, Deportes, Vida Social de Chiquimula. (533 words)
Blog de Chiquimula - La Perla de Oriente - Cultura, Deportes, Vida Social de Chiquimula.
La Asociación de Ganaderos de la ciudad de Chiquimula, al celebrar la Feria en honor a “LA VIRGEN DEL TRÁNSITO”, le invita a participar en todos los eventos programados del 10 al 19 de Agosto, con su presencia, le daremos mayor relevancia a todas ellas.
Jocotán, Chiquimula, te espera este Domingo 15 de Julio, a la mejor pista de motocross del departamento para disfrutes y demuestres de que estas hecho.
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