Department Chiquimula – Wikipedia
| Chiquimula | |
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 Location of Chiquimula in Guatemala |
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| Capital city | Chiquimula |
| population | 415,900 (Calculation 2016) |
| Surface | 2.376 km² |
| Population density | 175 ew./km² |
| outline | 11 |
| Highest elevation | 2146 |
| ISO 3166-2 | GT-20 |
 WAPPEN DES APPARTMENTS CHIQUIMULA |
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Chiquimula is a Departamento Guatemalas and is located in the east of the country (region III). It extends to 2,376 km² and has around 415,900 inhabitants. The capital of the Departamentos is the city of Chiquimula of the same name.
Chiquimula Grenzt in northern the department of Zacapa, in the ends of Honduras, in the north an el Salvapa and the department of Jutiapa, in the south an Jalapa.
The Departamento Chiquimula is located in a geographical and climatic transition area between the last foothills of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southern Guatemalas, the Sierra del Merendón, which runs in the east on the border with Honduras and the lowlands open to the Caribbean with the Río Motagua. In Chiquimula, a hill and low mountain landscape predominates, which rarely increases to over 1,500 m. In the very south, on the border with El Salvador, the Cerro Montecristo with 2,146 m is the highest elevation. The north is characterized by the valley landscapes around the capital around the capital of Chiquimula and around Jocotán. At their northern end, several large parts of the Departamentos drain rivers unite in Rio Grande , which in turn flows into the neighboring Zacapa in the Río Motagua. The climate is moderate to hot, the temperatures generally range between 14 and 27 ° C, in the lowlands the 30 degrees can also be exceeded significantly. The average annual rainfall is 1,100 mm.
The population is predominantly Spanish descent, and there are also some smaller Chortí communities. The approximately 350,000 inhabitants of the Departamentos live in 11 Municipios (large communities or counties):
The Departamento as a state administrative district has a governor sent by the central government. The Municipios are independent local authorities with chosen mayors and people’s representatives and subdivide themselves Village and Peoples (Rural communities) as well as in Hamlets, places, farms, rancherías (Hamlet and farms).
Economic life is characterized by agriculture. Beans are grown (with the best in Guatemala), corn, coffee, sugar cane, tobacco and various fruit and vegetables. The breakdown of raw materials such as zinc, lead and silver only plays a subordinate role. Tourism benefits from the pilgrimage location of Esquipula, from the Ipala (1,650 m) volcano in the southwest with its lagoon, which was developed into a water park and from through traffic to Honduras (Copán) and El Salvador. Chiquimula is well connected to Guatemala City via the Atlantic-Fernstraße, which runs in neighboring Zacapa. The branch line from Zacapa to Chiquimula and El Salvador is no longer in operation. The city of Chiquimula has an airfield for general aviation.
Chiquimula was dominated by the Chortí before the Spanish conquest, which had immigrated from the south of today’s Mexico since the 10th century. From 1530 they were subjected to Spaniards and their mercenaries, who beat the Chortí, among others, at Mictlán, Eskirpujá and Copántl. Chiquimula formed one as already during the colonial era Chiquimula district Described large administrative district, which included (at different times) today’s Departamentos Jutiapa, Jalapa, El Progreso, Zacapa and Izabal. Due to the corresponding political weight, Chiquimula tried to form its own state in 1822 shortly after the independence of Spain, but this was prevented by the Guatemala central government with military means. From then on, Chiquimula formed an administrative district with Zacapa, which the government divided into the two of the current venue on November 10, 1871.
In the 19th century, due to its strategic importance, Chiquimula was several times the scene of battles in which the forces of Guatemala asserted themselves against those of the neighboring countries. On February 2, 1852, General Rafael Carrera beat the United Army of Honduras and El Salvador with San José La Arada.
For a long time, Chiquimula, who likes to refer to himself as the “pearl of the East”, has been shaped by the pilgrimage location of Esquipula, the goal of numerous creditors from all over Central America. The local church with its Black Christ was in 1961 by Pope John XXIII. raised to the basilica. In 1986, important international negotiations on peace, democratization and economic cooperation in Central America took place in Esquipulas at the end of the Guatemaltec civil war.
14,749875 -89.474218 Coordinates: 14 ° 45 ′ N , 89 ° 28 ′ IN
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