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HUEHUETANANGO (i.e. in the local Indian dialect, " City of the Ancients ") , the capital of the department of Huehuetanango , western Guatemala, rob m. W.N.W. of Guatemala city, on the right bank and near the source of the river Salegua, a tributary of the Chiapas
Huehuetanango was built near the site of the ancient Indian city of Zakuleu, now represented by some ruins on a neighbouring ridge
principal
European
long the headquarters of a successful Dominican mission; its convent, enriched by the gifts of pilgrims and the revenues of the silver mines owned by the monks, became one of the wealthiest foundations
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