San Miguel Ixtahuacan

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San Miguel Ixtahuacan
Coordinates: 15 ° 16 ′  N , 91 ° 45 ′  W
Map: Guatemala
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San Miguel Ixtahuacan​
San Miguel Ixtahuacán on the map of Guatemala
Basic data
Country Guatemala
Department San Marcos
City foundation 1800
Residents 35,276  (2010)
Detailed data
surface 184 km 2
Population density 192 people / km 2
height 2050  m
Post Code 12005
Time zone UTC −6
City patron Archangel Michael
Feast: September 29th
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San Miguel Ixtahuacán 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 65 km north of the departmental capital San Marcos in the highlands of the Sierra Madre at an altitude of 2,050 meters.

San Miguel Ixtahuacán can be reached from San Marcos via a country road that leads east of the Tajumulco volcano via La Grandeza, Serchil and Tejutla to the remote north of the department. Around 35,000 people live in the 184 km² municipality, the vast majority of them in rural areas. About 90 percent of the population belongs to the Mam - Maya on. Subsistence farming is the rule. Mining operated by North American companies ( marlin mine , mining of gold and silver ) is also of importance. In addition to the main town, the municipality consists of the rural communities (Aldeas) Agel, Baljetre Buena Vista, Cabajum, Chilive, Colmito, El Zapote, La Patria, Maquivil, Salitre, Sicabe Bella Vista, Subchal and Triunfo with a total of about 100 hamlets. The upper reaches of the Río Cuilco crosses the east of the municipality , which then flows into the Río Grijalva and thus feeds the large Mexican hydropower plant La Angostura .

Neighboring municipalities are Sipacapa in the southeast, Comitancillo in the south, Tejutla in the southwest, Concepción Tutuapa in the west and the municipalities San Idelfonso Ixtahuacán , San Gaspar Ixil and Santa Bárbara in the north and east, which already belong to the neighboring department of Huehuetenango .

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