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Ixcán

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Ixcán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. [1]

51 relations: Alta Verapaz Department, Carlos Castillo Armas, Catholic Church, Chahal, Guatemala, Chajul, Chel, Chiapas, Chisec, Cobán, Departments of Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt, El Estor, Evangelicalism, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Franja Transversal del Norte, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Guatemala, Guatemalan Civil War, Huehuetenango Department, Indigenous peoples, International Air Transport Association, International Labour Organization, Izabal Department, Jakaltek language, K'iche' language, Köppen climate classification, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, List of airports in Guatemala, Livingston, Guatemala, Mam language, Mayan languages, Mesoamerica Project, Mexico, Municipality, Nebaj, Petén Department, Playa Grande, Guatemala, Q'eqchi', Q'eqchi' language, Q’anjob’al language, Quiché Department, San Juan Cotzal, San Luis, El Petén, Santa Cruz Barillas, Sayaxché, Spanish language, Tropical rainforest climate, United States, Uspantán, Uspantek language, ..., Xalalá Dam. Expand index (1 more) »

Alta Verapaz Department

Alta Verapaz is a department in the north central part of Guatemala.

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Carlos Castillo Armas

Carlos Castillo Armas (November 4, 1914 – July 26, 1957) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chahal, Guatemala

Chahal is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.

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Chajul

Chajul (full name San Gaspar Chajul) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.

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Chel

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Chiapas

Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the 31 states that with Mexico City make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chisec

Chisec is a municipality in the north of the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz that was founded in 1813.

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Cobán

Cobán, fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the capital of the department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala.

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Departments of Guatemala

Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) which are in turn divided into 340 municipalities.

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Efraín Ríos Montt

José Efraín Ríos Montt (June 16, 1926 – April 1, 2018) was a Guatemalan general and politician who was born in Huehuetenango.

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El Estor

El Estor is a municipality in the Izabal department of Guatemala.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Fernando Romeo Lucas García

General Fernando Romeo Lucas García (4 July 1924 – 27 May 2006) was the 25th President of Guatemala from 1 July 1978 to 23 March 1982.

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Franja Transversal del Norte

Franja Transversal del Norte -or Northern Transversal Strip in English- is a region in Guatemala delimited on the north by an imaginary line between Vértice de Santiago in Huehuetenango and Modesto Méndez Port in Izabal and in the south by La Mesilla in Huehuetenango and Izabal lake.

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Fray Bartolomé de las Casas

Fray Bartolomé de las Casas is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

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Guatemalan Civil War

The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996.

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Huehuetenango Department

Huehuetenango is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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International Air Transport Association

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association of the world’s airlines.

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency dealing with labour problems, particularly international labour standards, social protection, and work opportunities for all.

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Izabal Department

Izabal is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Jakaltek language

The Jakaltek (Jacaltec) language, also known as Jakalteko (Jacalteco) or Popti’, is a Mayan language of Guatemala spoken by 90,000 Jakaltek people in the department of Huehuetenango, and some 500 the adjoining part of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

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K'iche' language

K’iche’ (also Qatzijob'al "our language" to its speakers), or Quiché, is a Maya language of Guatemala, spoken by the K'iche' people of the central highlands.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García

Brigadier General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (January 24, 1930, Harris M. Lentz, Routledge, 4 Feb 2014, page 345 – December 9, 2009) was President of Guatemala from July 1, 1974 to July 1, 1978.

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List of airports in Guatemala

This is a list of airports in Guatemala, sorted by location.

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Livingston, Guatemala

Livingston is the name of a town in Izabal Department, eastern Guatemala, at the mouth of the Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras.

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Mam language

Mam is a Mayan language with half a million speakers in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, and 10,000 in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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Mayan languages

The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use Mayan when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language.

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Mesoamerica Project

The Mesoamerica Integration and Development Project (Proyecto Mesoamérica, or PM) is a regional mechanism specialized in implementing projects that deliver regional public goods for inclusive development and integration of the 10 participating countries that share a common history and culture: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Nebaj

Nebaj is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the western Guatemala highlands.

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Petén Department

Petén is a department of the Republic of Guatemala.

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Playa Grande, Guatemala

Playa Grande ("Big beach") is the administrative centre of the municipality of Ixcán in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.

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Q'eqchi'

Q'eqchi' (K'ekchi' in the former orthography, or simply Kekchi in many English-language contexts, such as in Belize) are a Maya people of Guatemala and Belize.

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Q'eqchi' language

The Q'eqchi' language, also spelled Kekchi, K'ekchi', or kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages, spoken within Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala and Belize.

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Q’anjob’al language

Q'anjob'al (also Kanjobal) is a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and part of Mexico.

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Quiché Department

Quiché is a department of Guatemala.

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San Juan Cotzal

San Juan Cotzal is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.

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San Luis, El Petén

San Luis is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala.

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Santa Cruz Barillas

Santa Cruz Barillas is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango.

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Sayaxché

Sayaxché is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión river.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Tropical rainforest climate

A tropical rainforest climate, also known as an equatorial climate, is a tropical climate usually (but not always) found along the equator.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uspantán

Uspantán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.

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Uspantek language

The Uspanteko (Uspanteco, Uspanteko, Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala, closely related to K'iche'.

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Xalalá Dam

The Xalalá Hydroelectric Dam is a proposed dam that will span the Chixoy River in the municipality of Ixcán in Guatemala.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcán

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