Laj Chimel
Laj Chimel or Chimel is a community located in the cloud forest of the municipality of San Miguel Uspantán, Department of El Quiché, Guatemala. It is the birthplace of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.- Type: Farm
- Description: small town in Guatemala
- Also known as: “Chimelb”
Laj Chimel
- Categories: human settlement, locality, and agriculture
- Location: Lanquín, Alta Verapaz Department, Northern Lowlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
15.57211° or 15° 34′ 20″ north
Longitude
-90.03249° or 90° 1′ 57″ west
Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)
Open location code
767FHXC9+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=farm
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Laj Chimel” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լա Չիմել”
- Belarusian: “Чымель”
- Bulgarian: “Чимел”
- Czech: “Laj Chimel”
- Danish: “Laj Chimel”
- Dutch: “Laj Chimel”
- French: “Chimel”
- Galician: “Laj Chimel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Laj Chimel”
- Russian: “Ла-Чимель”
- Spanish: “Finca Chimelb”
- Welsh: “Laj Chimel”
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