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HUEHUETANANGO (i.e. in the local Indian dialect, " City of the Ancients ")

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 854 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
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
 . Pop. (1905) about 12,000.
Huehuetanango
  was built near the site of the ancient Indian city of Zakuleu, now represented by some ruins on a neighbouring
ridge
  surrounded by deep ravines. It is the
principal
  town of a fertile upland region, which produces coffee, cocoa and many
European
  and tropical fruits. Chiantla, a neighbouring town mainly inhabited by Indians, was
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
  in Central America. It was secularized in 1893, and the mines have been abandoned.


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