Tactic

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Tactic
Coordinates: 15 ° 19 ′  N , 90 ° 21 ′  W
Map: Guatemala
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Tactic on the map of Guatemala
Basic data
Country Guatemala
Department Alta Verapaz
City foundation July 2, 1545
Residents 24,535  (2002)
- in the metropolitan area 3,179
Detailed data
surface 85 km 2
Population density 289 inhabitants / km 2
height 1466  m
Waters Río Cahabón
Post Code 16004
Time zone UTC −6
City patron Santa María la Asunción
Website www.inforpressca.com/tactic/index.php
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Tactic is a place ( villa ) in Guatemala . Tactic is the administrative seat of the large municipality of the same name in the Alta Verapaz department . Around 25,000 people live in the 85 km² municipality and around 3,200 in Tactic.

geography

Tactic is located in the southwest of Alta Verapaz in the valley of the Río Cahabón at an altitude of about 1,500 m. Around 75 percent of the municipal area extends in the surrounding mountainous region, the highest peak of which reaches 2,251 m here. The municipality is characterized by cloud forest and a humid, temperate climate. The landscape is amazingly similar to the Central European foothills of the Alps .

Tactic borders in the north on the municipality of Cobán , in the east on Tamahú in the valley of the Río Polochic , west on Santa Cruz Verapaz and in the south San Miguel Chicaj in Baja Verapaz .

In addition to Tactic, there are eleven villages ( Aldeas ) in the municipality : Chacalté, Chiacal, Chiallí, Cuyquel, El Manantial, Guaxpac, La Cumbre, Las Flores, Pansinic, Pasmolón and Tampó, as well as 31 hamlets ( Caseríos ) (El Aguacatillo, Agua Fria, Canxul, Chiallí, Chijulhá, Chamahoj, Chijí, San José Chi-Iixim, Chamche, Nuevo Chojol, Chimaxpop, Chichugua, Chican, El Platero, Cumbre de Pansinic, Nuevo San Julián, Bempec, Parrachoch, Pansalché, El Platanar, Rocjá, Río Frio, San Julián, Chisac, Samelb, Cahaboncito, Sabob, El Porvenir, El Astillero, Rancha and Chi-Ixim) and three independent estates ( fincas ) (La Esperanza, Chabalcoy, La Paz). The Villa Tactic was officially divided into the two original districts ( barrios ) Asunción and San Jacinto, later it was divided into 8 zones. Tactic also includes the El Arco settlement.

population

The majority of the population belongs to the Mayan group of Pocomchí , Kekchi reside mostly in Aldeas El Manantial and La Cumbre, in Chacalté there is a small Achí Association of that from the area of long ago Rabinal in Baja Verapaz drew upon. In 2002, of the total of 24,535 residents, only 3,179 lived in Villa Tactic, the rest in the country.

history

In pre-colonial times there were several Mayan ceremonial centers in the area of ​​today's municipality . The area was called "Chiabaatz", "Ruk´Ux´Akal" and also "Ratz´uum" by the Pocomchí. The later name Tactic is likely to be based on a corruption of a Pocomchí name for “ peaches ” that the Spaniards cultivated here (“Taq-Aj-Tik”: for example “Off to the peach country!”). The official founding of Tactics is traced back to the first baptisms that the Dominicans carried out here on July 2, 1545. At that time, the monks founded the parish of Santa María Tactic and shaped the area significantly in the following centuries. After the Departamento Verapaz was divided into the two today's Departments Alta and Baja Verapaz on May 4, 1877 and Tactic initially belonged to Baja Verapaz, the Guatemalan government struck Alta Verapaz on December 10, 1877. More recently, Tactic has been the target of North American Protestant missionaries. Around 60 percent of the Tactics population today belong to a Protestant religious community .

Economy and Transport

Tactic is located on the CA 14 highway that runs from El Rancho ( El Progreso ) on the CA 9 Atlantic highway to Cobán , the capital of Alta Verapaz. Due to its location on the southern border of the department, it is also known as the “Gate of Alta Verapaz”. At Tactic, the national road 7 branches off from CA 14 to Panzós and El Estor on Lake Izabal . Tactic therefore benefits somewhat from through traffic. Local attractions include the Chi-Ixim chapel on a hill near Tactic, which is also the destination of numerous local pilgrims, and the Turicentro Chamché with its mineral springs . Of importance are dairy farming and animal husbandry and the cultivation of corn , beans , tomatoes , potatoes and several other fruits and vegetables.

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