San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán
San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán | |
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Municipality | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department | El Progreso |
| Municipality | San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| Area | |
• Municipality | 124 km2 (48 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 250 m (820 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 2,110 m (6,920 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 250 m (820 ft) |
| Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
• Municipality | 6,129 |
| • Urban | 1,846 |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism |
| Time zone | UTC-6 |
| Website | Municipality site |
San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán is a municipality in the El Progreso department of Guatemala. The head town of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán is situated along the northern bank of the Motagua River at an altitude of 250 m. It has a population of over 6,000 people (census 2002)[1] and covers a terrain of 124 km².[2] San Cristobal Acasaguastlan borders with San Agustín Acasaguastlán to the west and El Jicaro to the south. San Cristobal Acasaguastlan is 101 kilometer from Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala.
History
Acasaguastlán's history, has its origin in the Mayan culture, its people are apparently with the cultures of Copan and Quirigua. In the ninth century and X invasions Nahuath (Nahoas) are located in the vicinity of Acasaguastlán up a cultural mixture that surely led to the original language and the place known only as the language Tlacabatleca or Alaguilac, the Spaniards are going and conquest, is founded the town of San Cristobal, placing the system instead of the aboriginal peoples of Spanish, as was customary at the time of conquest and forced submission to living in hills and mountains so scattered, forcing them to dislodge the Tinamit (town or city) as a religious, political and commercial. At the time of the conquest is the town of Acasaguastlán an important religious shrine, holy and sacred place for Indians, situated on the banks of the Motagua River, near what is now the seat of the Municipality of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán, holy for the Indians but did not have major construction, only mounds of worship as is Guaytán.This preponderance of religion and politics is used by the Spaniards to convert the status of prehistoric Acasaguastlán province in Spanish, so it is important to mention the importance of the town of San Cristobal, in the pro-independence riots of 1812, and set its central square as the first where were the first cries for independence. Today is the people of Acasaguastlán the head of the municipality of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán. The Municipality of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán, Zacapa belonged to before the creation of Decree 683 of April 13, 1908 which created the Department of El Progreso, the town goes to the Department of Zacapa. Legislative Decree 1965 of April 3, 1934 in the establishment of the new Department of El Progreso back again the municipality of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán to the Department of El Progreso Acasaguastlán was the original name as this town was the seat of corregimiento of the same name now bears the name of San Cristobal Acasaguastlán. Two of the finest examples of 16th-century Baroque architecture can be found in San Agustín Acasaguastlán and San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán in El Progreso.
Education
San Cristobal is currently the only municipality in Guatemala to be 100% literate.
Church
The colonial Cathedral of San Cristobal of 1654 is restored to its former glory and promises to be on par with the cathedrals and churches found in Antigua. The restoration project is being undertaken to undo damage caused by the earthquake of 1976.
See a picture of the Cathredral at http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/512695708_80f3c57f85.jpg
References
- ^ a b "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". INE. 2002.
- ^ San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán. Municipality of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán.
- Feldman, Lawrence H. (2000). Motagua Colonial: Conquest and Colonization in the Motagua River Valley in Guatemala. Raleigh: Boson Books/C&M Online Media. p. 200. ISBN 1-886420-51-3.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - McNally, Shelagh. Adventure Guide to Guatemala (Adventure Guides Series). Grand Rapids: Hunter (NJ), 2003.
- Oss, Adriaan C. van. Catholic Colonialism A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524-1821 (Cambridge Latin American Studies). New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.
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