San Miguel Ixtahuacán
| San Miguel Ixtahuacán | |
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| Municipality of Guatemala | |
| Nickname(s): San Miguel Ixt. | |
 San Miguel Ixtahuacán
Location in Guatemala
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| Coordinates: 15°15′00″N 91°45′00″W / 15.25000°N 91.75000°WCoordinates: 15°15′00″N 91°45′00″W / 15.25000°N 91.75000°W | |
| Country |
 Guatemala
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| Department |
 San Marcos
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| Government | |
| • Mayor | René Soto (CREO-Unionista) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 35.210 |
| Climate | Cwb |
San Miguel Ixtahuacán is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It compromises 19 villages and the population is about 39,000 people. The majority of people are ethnically Maya- Mam, and speak the Mam and Spanish languages. Most inhabitants subsist by farming, growing crops of corn, beans, vegetables and fruits, irrigated from the Cuilco River and its tributaries.
In 1690, Tejutla had a large area and included the modern municipalities of Comitancillo, Ixchiguán, Concepción Tutuapa, Sipacapa, Sibinal, Tajumulco, Tacaná and part of what is now San Miguel Ixtahuacán. According to the historical writings from Recordación Florida of Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán, Tejutla belonged to Quetzaltenango Department and it was a "prosperous land with rich weathers and comfortable forest with enough water".
Tejutla was an important commercial and religious center; in August 1767, Joseph Domingo Hidalgo described Santiago Tejutla as "El Curato" -i.e., the focal center of commerce of all the towns that were around it− in the Gaceta de Guatemala, the official newspaper of the times. Then, in the last quarter of the 18th century, bishop Dr. Pedro Cortés y Larraz, who arrived from Cuilco in 1770 as part of the inspection he was doing of the Guatemalan dioceses, called Tejutla "Santiago en la Cima del Monte" (English: Santiago at the top of the hill" and reported that there were "sixty four families who lived very well" in the area.
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