Chichicastenango

Chichicastenango, also known as Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, is a metropolis within the El Quiche department of Guatemala, and is the municipal seat for the encompassing municipality of the equal call. It is placed in a mountainous area about 140 km northwest of Guatemala City, at an altitude of 1,965 m. The Spanish conquistadors gave the metropolis its name from the Nahuatl call utilized by their infantrymen from Tlaxcala: Tzitzicaztenanco, or City of Nettles. Its unique name changed into Chaviar.

Chichicastenango is a K'iche Maya cultural centre. According to the 2012 census, 98.5 according to cent of the municipality's population is indigenous Mayan Kiche. 21 per cent of the population speak simplest K'iche, 71 according to cent communicate each K'iche and Spanish, and the closing eight in line with cent communicate handiest Spanish. Chichicastenango hosts market days on Thursdays and Sundays where companies sell handicrafts, food, flora, pottery, wooden boxes, condiments, medicinal flora, candles, pom and copal, cal, grindstones, pigs and chickens, machetes, and different equipment.