Chichicastenango
Chichicastenango is a small town in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Located at an altitude of 2030m, it is surrounded by valleys and mountains. It is mostly renowned for its colourful markets, held on Thursdays and Sundays, where it is said that some of the most beautiful traditional Mayal textiles are sold.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Chichicastenango
- Categories: municipality of Guatemala and locality
- Location: Quiché Department, Western Highlands, Guatemala, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.9429° or 14° 56′ 34″ northLongitude
-91.1117° or 91° 6′ 42″ westPopulation
142,000Elevation
2,077 metres (6,814 feet)United Nations Location Code
GT CCOOpen location code
766CWVVQ+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 1073096599OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Urdu—“Chichicastenango” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Chichicastenango”
- Bulgarian: “Чичикастенанго”
- Catalan: “Chichicastenango”
- Cebuano: “Chichicastenango”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Santo Tomas Chichicastenango”
- Chinese: “Chichicastenango”
- Chinese: “奇奇卡斯特南戈”
- Czech: “Chichicastenango”
- Dutch: “Chichicastenango”
- Esperanto: “Chichicastenango”
- Finnish: “Chichicastenango”
- French: “Chichicastenango”
- German: “Chichicastenango”
- Hebrew: “צ’יצ’יקסטננגו”
- Italian: “Santo Tomás Chichicastenango”
- Japanese: “チチカステナンゴ”
- Korean: “치치카스테낭고”
- Lithuanian: “Čičikastenangas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chichicastenango”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chichicastenango”
- Norwegian: “Chichicastenango”
- Polish: “Chichicastenango”
- Portuguese: “Chichicastenango”
- Russian: “Чичикастенанго”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chichicastenango”
- Slovenian: “Chichicastenango”
- Spanish: “Chichicastenango”
- Swedish: “Chichicastenango”
- Swedish: “Municipio de Santo Tomas Chichicastenango”
- Ukrainian: “Чичикастенанго”
- Urdu: “چیچیکاستینانگو”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chichicastenango”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.