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Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital and largest city
- Antigua
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 465 km (180 sq mi)
- Density
- 711/km (1,840/sq mi)
- Urban
- 292,366
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya
- Time zone
- UTC-6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Antigua Guatemala
- Official language
- Kaqchikel
- Population
- 330469
- Area
- 465
- Shares border with
- Escuintla Department
- Image
- Cerro de la Cruz, Antigua Guatemala 04.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sacatepéquez Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Sacatepéquez Department
- inception
- 1839-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sacatepéquez Department
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Sacatepéquez ( Spanish pronunciation: [sa.ka.teˈpe.kes]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The name comes from Sacatepéquez, a city from November 21, 1542, until July 29, 1773, when it was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemala earthquake.
The capital of the department is Antigua Guatemala. Other important cities include Ciudad Vieja and San Lucas Sacatepéquez, which also hosts a marketplace and is a culinary attraction. The Chajoma were a group of indigenous people who were Kaqchikel speaking Maya, they identified Mixco Viejo as their capital, and spread throughout the Sacatepequez Department until their capital was moved to Ciudad Vieja, in Antigua.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sacatepéquez Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.