Mataquescuintla
Sign in to saveMataquescuintla (from Nahuatl, meaning net to catch dogs) is a town and municipality in the Jalapa department of south-east Guatemala. It covers .
Key facts
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- Municipality
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- Bajando de Miramundo y Pino Dulce se ve la ciudad de Mataquescuintla. - panoramio.jpg
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- Mataquescuintla seen from Miramundo and Pino Dulce
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- Guatemala
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- Location within Guatemala
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- Country
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- Department
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- 25px Jalapa
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- Villa
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- 1848
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- Incorporated
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- 1848
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- Mayor–Council
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- Mataquescuintla municipal council
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- Mayor of Mataquescuintla
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- Hugo Manfredo Loy
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- After Central American independence
- Overthrow of Mariano Gálvez
- Creation of Santa Rosa department
- After the Liberal Revolution
- Government
- Geography
- Climate
- Location
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
Mataquescuintla (from Nahuatl, meaning net to catch dogs) is a town and municipality in the Jalapa department of south-east Guatemala. It covers .
Mataquescuintla played a significant role during the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was the center of operations of conservative general Rafael Carrera, who led a Catholic peasant revolution against the liberal government of Mariano Gálvez in 1838, and then ruled Guatemala from 1840 until his death in 1865.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mataquescuintla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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