Tacaná (San Marcos)

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Tacaná
Coordinates: 15 ° 14 ′  N , 92 ° 4 ′  W
Map: Guatemala
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Tacaná​
Tacaná on the map of Guatemala
Basic data
Country Guatemala
Department San Marcos
City foundation 1700
Residents 87,998  (2010)
Detailed data
surface 302 km 2
Population density 291 inhabitants / km 2
height 2410  m
Post Code 12007
Time zone UTC −6
City patron Virgen de la Asunción
festival: August 15th
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Tacaná is a place and a municipality in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala . The place is about 350 km northwest of Guatemala City and about 70 km northwest of the departmental capital San Marcos in the highlands of the Sierra Madre at an altitude of 2,410 meters.

Tacaná can be reached from San Marcos via a country road that leads east of the Tajumulco volcano via La Grandeza, Serchil and Ixchiguán as well as over the 3,400 meter high Cumbre de Cotzil pass into the remote northwest of the department. To the south of the town rises the 4,093 meter high Tacaná volcano , over which the border to Mexico runs. In the other directions of the compass, the town, which has a population of around 9,000, is surrounded by mountains around 3,000 meters high. Tacaná is located in the headwaters of the Río Coatán, which flows west into neighboring Chiapas .

Around 90,000 people live in the 302 km² municipality of Tacaná, the vast majority of them in rural areas. In addition to the main town, the municipality consists of the rural communities (Aldeas) Chanjulé, Chequim Grande, Cunlaj, El Rosario, Las Majadas, Sajquim, San Luis, San Rafael, Sanajaba, Sujchay, Toaca, Tojcheche, Tuicoche and Vista Hermosa as well as a total of around 150 Hamlets. These sometimes extremely remote places often have closer connections to Chiapas, Mexico than to the rest of Guatemala. In addition to agriculture and sheep breeding, the manufacture of textiles from wool plays a particularly important role.

Neighboring municipalities are San José Ojetenam in the east and Ixchiguán and Sibinal in the southeast and south. In the north, Tacaná borders on the municipality of Tectitán , which already belongs to the Huehuetenango department , and in the west on the municipality of Motozintla in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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