Chisec is a town and municipality in the north of the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz that was founded in 1813. It is situated at 230 metres (755 ft) above sea level. The municipality covers a territory of 1,244 km2.
The 2018 census documented the population at 84,553. Approximately 95% of the municipality's inhabitants are Mayan, spread over the town of Chisec and approximately 140 communities. There used to be closer to 240 communities, but a number of these have officially split off to the new municipality of Raxruha, created by the Guatemalan Congress in 2008. The Q'eqchi' language is widely spoken there alongside Spanish.
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Chisec is a town and municipality in the north of the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz that was founded in 1813. It is situated at 230 metres (755 ft)...
Verapaz, and to the west by El Quiché. Also in Alta Verapaz are the towns of Chisec, San Pedro Carchá and San Cristóbal Verapaz. In pre-Columbian times, this...
Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz...
Pablo Jocopilas 13,328 Suchitepéquez 75 Malacatán 12,891 San Marcos 76 Chisec 12,775 Alta Verapaz 77 La Democracia 12,718 Huehuetenango 78 San Lucas Tolimán...
Flores, El Petén B'onb'il Pek Cave in Chisec, Alta Verapaz Chicoy Cave in Purulhá, Baja Verapaz Candelaria Caves in Chisec, Alta Verapaz Ixobel Cave in Poptún...
Frontera Candelaria Caves, a natural cave system in the municipalities of Chisec and Raxruha Candelaria, Lempira Candelaria Municipality, Campeche Candelaria...
highland-lowland transition of Alta Verapaz in Guatemala between the municipalities of Chisec and Raxruha. The caves are famous for their peculiar karst phenomena and...
Declared vila in 1832; cidade in 1835. 1813 Capela Sergipe Brazil 1813 Chisec Alta Verapaz Guatemala 1813 Barranquilla Atlántico Colombia 1815 Areia Paraíba...
Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz...
between thirty and fifty families each ; and in Alta Verapaz in the Ochabal, Chisec and Sejalaute area. In 1971, the Qʼeqchiʼ indigenous people were evicted...
Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, San Agustín Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta...
Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz...
specimens was collected specifically from the Rio San Simon, 6 km due west of Chisec, and its type locality is the Rio Dolores, along the shore by the village...
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