Tajumulco (San Marcos)

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Tajumulco
Coordinates: 15 ° 5 ′  N , 91 ° 55 ′  W
Map: Guatemala
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Tajumulco on the map of Guatemala
Basic data
Country Guatemala
Department San Marcos
Residents 53,791  (2008)
Detailed data
surface 300 km 2
Population density 179 people / km 2
height 2050  m
Post Code 12009
Time zone UTC −6
City patron Santa Isabel
Festival: July 8th
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Tajumulco is a place and a municipality in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala . The place is about 300 km northwest of Guatemala City and almost 40 km northwest of the departmental capital San Marcos in the highlands of the Sierra Madre at an altitude of 2,050 meters. Immediately southeast of the town on the Río Cutzulchimá rises the 4,220 meter high Tajumulco volcano . The Tajumulco is the highest volcano in Guatemala and Central America.

Tajumulco can be reached from San Marcos via a country road that leads east of the volcano via La Grandeza and Serchil to the remote valley of the Cutzulchimá. West of Tajumulco there are only unpaved roads that lead to the Mexican border at Unión Juárez , about 20 km away , to the Tacaná volcano, a little further north, or to the Pacific lowland region to the southwest. To the east of Tajumulco, a country road branches off to the north, via which Ixchiguán , Sibinal and thus also the 4,093 m high Tacaná can be reached.

More than 50,000 people live in the 300 km² municipality, of which around 90 percent are Mam - Mayas . Because of the remote location in the highlands, the economy is underdeveloped and the population is usually marked by poverty. In addition to the main town Tajumulco, the municipality consists of the rural communities (Aldeas) Boxoncan, Bullaj, Chanchicupe, Costa Rica Joviu, El Malacate, El Malacatillo, La Unión Tolax, Pueblo Nuevo, San José La Paz, Santa Lucía Tolax, Tocuto, Tonimchun, Toquian Chico, Toquian Grande, Totana, Tuinima, Tuiquia, Tuiquimamel and Xolhuitz as well as from over 120 hamlets. The neighboring municipios are Sibinal and Ixchiguán in the north, San Marcos in the east, San Pablo and Malacatán in the south and the aforementioned Mexican Municipio Unión Juárez in the west.

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