Sayaxché
Sign in to saveSayaxché () is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión River. It covers an area of , and had 55,578 inhabitants at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid-2012) was 114,781 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sayaxché
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality of Guatemala
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- Settlement.image_caption
- Ferry across Río de la Pasión in Sayaxché
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- Guatemala
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- Country
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- Department
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- 25px El Petén
- Settlement.established_title
- Found
- Settlement.established_date
- 1874
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 3904
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 125
- Settlement.population_total
- 114781
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
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- Am
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Sayaxché () is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión River. It covers an area of , and had 55,578 inhabitants at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid-2012) was 114,781 inhabitants.
The city was founded in 1874 to provide accommodation for forest workers of Jamet Sastré logging company. It obtained municipal status in 1929.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sayaxché” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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