Chicamán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.
Chicamán | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Chicamán Location in Guatemala | |
| Coordinates: 15°20′54″N 90°47′58″W / 15.34833°N 90.79944°W | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department | .png){kind=small} El Quiché |
| Municipality | Chicamán |
| Established as a municipality | 1984 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| • Mayor | Diego Us (PP) |
| Area | |
• Municipality | 199 sq mi (516 km2) |
| Elevation | 4,820 ft (1,470 m) |
| Highest elevation | 7,306 ft (2,227 m) |
| Lowest elevation | 1,601 ft (488 m) |
| Population (Census 2002) | |
• Municipality | 25,280 |
| • Urban | 1,893 |
| • Ethnicities | Poqomchi' Uspantek K'iche' K'ekchi Ladino |
| • Religions | Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy[1] Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
| Climate | Cfb |
| Website | http://www.inforpressca.com/chicamanq/ |
Tourists may visit the Canyon El Barbudo and the Quatro Chorros waterfalls.[2] Its population in 2023 is 44,728.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Map". Mayan Orthodoxy. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ "Turismo en el Municipio de Chicamán, Quiché". Inforpressca.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-01-17.
- ^ "Chicamán (Municipality, Guatemala) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
