Sipacapa
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Sipacapa San Bartolomé Sipacapa |
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| Municipality of Guatemala | |
 Sipacapa
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| Coordinates: 15°12′44″N 91°38′05″W / 15.21222°N 91.63472°W | |
| Country |
 Guatemala
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| Department |
 San Marcos
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| Municipality | Sipacapa |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| • Mayor (2016-2020) | Carlos Domingo (LIDER) |
| Population (Census 2002) | |
| • Municipality of Guatemala | 14,043 |
| • Urban | 623 |
| • Ethnicities | Sipakapense, Ladino |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
| Climate | Cwb |
Sipacapa is a municipality in the San Marcos department, situated in the Western highlands of Guatemala. Sipacapa's population of around 14,000 is spread among 14 village communities, skattered over mountainous terrain. Sipacapa is considered a linguistic community, as Sipakapense is a Maya language unique to the municipality.
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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