San José Ojetenam

San José Ojetenam
Coordinates: 15 ° 14 ′ N , 91 ° 58 ′ W San José Ojetenam on the map of Guatemala	San José Ojetenam
	San José Ojetenam
Basic data
Country	Guatemala
Department	San Marcos
City foundation	1848
Residents	19,194 (2010)
Detailed data
surface	37 km 2
Population density	519 inhabitants / km 2
height	3050 m
Post Code	12024
Time zone	UTC −6
City patron	; Feast of Joseph of Nazareth : March 19th
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San José Ojetenam is a village and a municipality in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala . The place is about 320 km northwest of Guatemala City and about 60 km northwest of the departmental capital San Marcos in the highlands of the Sierra Madre at an altitude of 3,050 meters.

San José Ojetenam can be reached from San Marcos via a country road that leads east of the Tajumulco volcano via La Grandeza, Serchil and Ixchiguán to the remote north of the department. With 37 km² it is one of the smallest municipalities in the department. Of the around 20,000 inhabitants, around 4,000 live in the main town, the rest in the rural communities (Aldeas) Choanla, Esquipulas, Ojetenam, Pabolaj, San Fernando, San Rafael Yguil, Santa Cruz Buena Vista and in over 60 hamlets. As in other remote mountain regions of Guatemala, subsistence farming is the rule here too , and there are also remittances from migrants.

The municipality was founded on August 23, 1848 at the place of today's Aldea Ojetenam ( Mam : "old place"), but then moved to Ixjoyon because of landslides, where it is still today under the name of San José Ojetenam. In 1936 the municipality was dissolved and the area was incorporated into the neighboring Ixchiguán . On June 21, 1946 the municipality was rebuilt.

Neighboring municipalities are Concepción Tutuapa in the east, Tejutla in the southeast, Ixchiguán in the south, Tacaná in the west and the municipality Tectitán in the north, which already belongs to the neighboring department of Huehuetenango .

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