Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Santa Cruz del Quiché
- Largest city
- Chichicastenango
- Type
- Departmental
- Governor
- Otto Ervin Macz Hó
- Department
- 8,378 km (3,235 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 3,200 m (10,500 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 150 m (490 ft)
- Urban
- 306,569
- Ethnicities
- Kʼicheʼ , Ixil , Uspantek , Sakapultek , Poqomchiʼ , Ladino
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism , Evangelicalism , Maya
- Time zone
- UTC-6
- Iso 3166 code
- GT-QC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Santa Cruz del Quiché
- Population
- 1081964
- Area
- 8378
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Huehuetenango Department
- Official website
- www.guatemala.gob.gt/quiche.php
- Image
- Amaneciendo en la Finca Acul.jpg
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- Commons category
- Quiché Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Quiché Department
- language of work or name
- K’iche’
- native label
- El Quiché
- language used
- Achi
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Encyclopedic overview
Quiché ( Spanish pronunciation: [kiˈtʃe]) is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples, to the north-west of Guatemala City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word Kʼicheʼ comes from the language of the same name, which means "many trees".
Population
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quiché Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.