Tejutla

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Tejutla
Coordinates: 15 ° 7 ′  N , 91 ° 48 ′  W
Map: Guatemala
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Tejutla on the map of Guatemala
Basic data
Country Guatemala
Department San Marcos
City foundation 1627
Residents 44,552  (2010)
Detailed data
surface 142 km 2
Population density 314 inhabitants / km 2
height 2520  m
Post Code 12010
Time zone UTC −6
City patron James the Elder
Festival: July 25th
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Tejutla (formerly also Santiago Tenango and Texutla , then Santiago Tejutla ) is a small town (villa) and the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala . The place is about 300 km northwest of Guatemala City and almost 40 km north of the departmental capital San Marcos in the highlands of the Sierra Madre at an altitude of 2,520 meters.

Tejutla can be reached from San Marcos via a country road that leads east of the Tajumulco volcano via La Grandeza and Serchil to the remote north of the department. Around 45,000 people live in the 142 km² municipality, the vast majority of them in rural areas. In addition to the main town with around 5,000 inhabitants, the municipality consists of the rural communities (Aldeas) Agua Tibia, Armenia, Buena Vista El Rosario, Cancela Grande, Chanlanchac, Culvillá, Cuyá, El Horizonte, El Paraiso, Esquipulas, Ixmulca, La Democracia, Las Delicias , Los Cerezos, Quipambe, San Isidro, Tojuchoc, Tuisincé and Venecia with a total of around 60 hamlets. Eight regions were formed for administrative purposes. Subsistence farming is the rule.

When the Spaniards arrived in 1524, Tejutla (then “Texutla”) was already a major Mam - Maya settlement . Next to the place the Spaniards founded a new village called Santiago Tenango on July 25, 1627. Both places coexisted side by side and had separate administrations. Around 1700, the local Spanish colonial administration was subordinate to an area that corresponded to today's Municipios Comitancillo , Ixchiguán , Concepción Tutuapa , Sipacapa , Sibinal , Tajumulco , Tacaná and parts of San Miguel Ixtahuacán . In the further course the two places Tejutla and Santiago Tenango grew together; The place was therefore called Santiago Tejutla for a while, until the reference to the patron Santiago in the place name was omitted. In 1870 Tejutla was given the status of a villa or a small town because of its regional importance . At that time there were also efforts to make Tejutla the capital of the department. In the decades that followed, a number of Aldeas Tejutlas became independent Municipios.

Today the following municipalities border Tejutla: Concepción Tutuapa in the north, San Miguel Ixtahuacán in the northeast, Comitancillo in the east and southeast, San Marcos in the south, Ixchiguán in the west and San José Ojetenam in the northwest.

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