Country Guatemala Highest elevation 2,500 m (8,200 ft) Climate Cwb Area 865 km² Department El Quiché | Municipality San Miguel Uspantán Lowest elevation 500 m (1,600 ft) Elevation 1,825 m Local time Sunday 11:38 PM | |
 | ||
Weather 17°C, Wind SW at 2 km/h, 72% Humidity | ||
Uspantán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. It is one of the largest municipalities of El Quiché and stretches from the mountainous highlands in the South to the tropical lowlands in the North. The municipal seat is in Villa de San Miguel Uspantán with a population of 2,800. The birthplace of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a community named Laj Chimel, is located Uspantán not far from the municipal seat. Completion of paving on the road in from Chichicastenango has brought a small tourist boom to the town.
Map of Uspantan, Guatemala
The municipality includes the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chitinamit, believed to be Jakawitz, the first capital of the K'iche' Maya.
References
Uspantán Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA