Canillá

Canillá
Municipality
Canillá's central plaza in 2006
Canillá Location in Guatemala
Coordinates: 15°10′00″N 90°51′00″W / 15.16667°N 90.85000°W / 15.16667; -90.85000
Country	Guatemala
Department	El Quiché
Municipality	Canillá
Government
• Type	Municipal
Area
• Municipality	123 km2 (47 sq mi)
Elevation	1,300 m (4,300 ft)
Population (Health Center Annual Report 2013)
• Municipality	15,053
• Urban	2,198
• Ethnicities	K'iche', Ladino
• Religions	Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya
Climate	Am
Website	http://www.inforpressca.com/canilla/

Coordinates: 15°10′00″N 90°51′00″W / 15.166667°N 90.85°W / 15.166667; -90.85

Canillá is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché with a surface area of 123 km² and population 15,053 people.

People in Canillá speak Spanish, K'iche' (a Mayan language), or both. Primary religions are Catholic and Evangelical.

Worried about the defection of the aj K’ub’ul family chief -who had taken his family away in order to look for fertile and, above all, pacific land-, the K’iche’ king sent a group of soldiers to control every single movement of them. He was afraid that the aj K'ub'ul would look for reinforcements from other ethnic group in the area to form a strong army and then attack the k'iche's. The warriors settled to the east of the aj K’ub’ul anD since the latter had moved away to look for peace and tranquility, they were a very peaceful community. And that is exactcly wha the warriors inform the K’iche’ king, reassuring him by telling that he should not worry about the exiled group, as they were really peaceful.

As time went by, the k'iche' warriors realized that the aj K'ub'ul life was very different from the one they were used to have under the ruling of their king, as they simple worked on their land and crops and then enjoyed their families without having to worry about being invaded or called to fight in a war. Therefore, they went back to their place of origin, Tujalj (Sacapulas and Canillá)), but only to pick up their families and went on to settle a new community where they were once stationed to keep an eye on the aj K'ub'ul.