Chichicastenango
Chichicastenango is a small town in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Located at an altitude of 2030m, it is surrounded by valleys and mountains. It is mostly renowned for its colourful markets, held on Thursdays and Sundays, where it is said that some of the most beautiful traditional Mayal textiles are sold.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Chichicastenango
- Type: Town with 142,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Quiché department, Guatemala
- Neighbors: Solola
- Categories: municipality of Guatemala and locality
- Location: Quiché Department, Western Highlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.9429° or 14° 56' 34" northLongitude
-91.1117° or 91° 6' 42" westPopulation
142,000Elevation
2,077 metres (6,814 feet)United Nations Location Code
GT CCOOpen Location Code
766CWVVQ+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 1073096599OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3598655Wikidata ID
Q603423Chichicastenango Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Breton: Chichicastenango
- Bulgarian: Чичикастенанго
- Catalan: Chichicastenango
- Cebuano: Chichicastenango
- Cebuano: Municipio de Santo Tomas Chichicastenango
- Chinese: Chichicastenango
- Chinese: 奇奇卡斯特南戈
- Czech: Chichicastenango
- Dutch: Chichicastenango
- Esperanto: Chichicastenango
- Finnish: Chichicastenango
- French: Chichicastenango
- German: Chichicastenango
- Hebrew: צ'יצ'יקסטננגו
- Italian: Santo Tomás Chichicastenango
- Japanese: チチカステナンゴ
- Korean: 치치카스테낭고
- Lithuanian: Čičikastenangas
- Min Nan Chinese: Chichicastenango
- Norwegian: Chichicastenango
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chichicastenango
- Polish: Chichicastenango
- Portuguese: Chichicastenango
- Russian: Чичикастенанго
- Slovenian: Chichicastenango
- Spanish: Chichicastenango
- Swedish: Chichicastenango
- Swedish: Municipio de Santo Tomas Chichicastenango
- Ukrainian: Чичикастенанго
- Urdu: چیچیکاستینانگو
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- ChulumalcabHamlet, 4 km north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Chichicastenango. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.