Tactic, Guatemala
| Tactic | |
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| Tactic | |
| Motto: "Trabajamos por el desarrollo del pueblo" (We work for people development) | |
 Tactic
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| Coordinates: 15°19′0″N 90°21′4″W / 15.31667°N 90.35111°WCoordinates: 15°19′0″N 90°21′4″W / 15.31667°N 90.35111°W | |
| Country |
 Guatemala
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| Department |
 Alta Verapaz
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| Order of Preachers Doctrine | 1545 |
| Incorporated | 1877 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–Council |
| • Body | Tactic municipal council |
| • Mayor of Tactic | Edín Guerrero |
| Elevation | 4,791 ft (1,465 m) |
| Population (2012)Censo de Guatemala, 2012 | |
| • Total | 30,000 |
| Demonym(s) | Tactico/Tactica |
| Time zone | Central America (UTC-6) |
| Climate | Cfb |
| Website | Tactic municipality |
Tactic (Spanish pronunciation: [takˈtik]) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is situated at 1,465 m above sea level. It has a population of 27,555, and covers a terrain of 85 km². The languages spoken in Tactic are predominantly Spanish, Poqomchí, and Q'eqchi'.
Before Columbus, there were only ceremonial centers in the area; these centers were located in Chiáchan, Guaxpac, Janté, Chiji, Cuyquel, Patal, Pansalché and Chiacal. And there also was a ceremonial hill in Chi-ixim, where the caciques, priest and other leaders gathered to celebrate every new moon; Chicán was the second ceremonial center in importance.
Between 1530 and 1531, captain Alonso de Ávila on his way to Ciudad Real accidentally discovered the lagoon and hill of Lacam-Tún. People of that place had historically traded with all the people that the Spaniards had conquered and knowing what was coming, seek refuge in the jungle. The Spaniards tried in vain to conquer the lacandones: from Nueva España Juan Enríquez de Guzman tried; from the Yucatán Peninsula tried Francisco de Montejo; Pedro de Alvarado attempted it from Guatemala along with captain Francisco Gil Zapata and, finally, Pedro Solórzano from Chiapas. That is when the Order of Preachers tried to convert the Tezulutlán "War Zone" into a peaceful region.
In the meantime, after a series of setbacks in La Española, the island Audiencia allowed Bartolomé de las Casas to accept Friar Tomás de Berlanga invitation to go to Nueva Granada in 1534, where he had just been appoint as Bishop. Both sailed toward Panamá, to then continue to the city of Lima, but during the trip a storm tossed their ship to Nicaragua, where Las Casas chose to remain in the Granada convent. in 1535, he proposed to the King and the Indias Council to start a peaceful colonization of the unexplored rural zones in the Guatemala region; however, in spite of Bernal Díaz de Luco and Mercado de Peñaloza intentions to help him, his suggestion was rejected. In 1536 Nicaragua governor, Rodrigo de Contreras, organized a military expedition, but Las Casas was able to postpone it by a couple of years after he notified queen Isabel de Portugal, wife of Carlos V. Given the authorities hostilities, Las Casas left Nicaragua y went to Guatemala.
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