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Quiché has historically been one of the most populous departments of Guatemala. At the 2018 census it had a population of 949,261. [1] Mayans account for 88.6% of the department's population. [2] Kʼicheʼ people are the largest Mayan ethnic group in the department, and account for 65.1% of the total population. [2] The department is named ...
A statue of Tecun Uman in the central plaza of Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala. Declared Guatemala's national hero in 1960, [21] Tecun Uman was the last of the K'iche' rulers. His death on February 20, 1524 [21] is memorialized each year by the Guatemalan people.
The Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj was a state in the highlands of modern-day Guatemala which was founded by the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) Maya in the thirteenth century, and which expanded through the fifteenth century until it was conquered by Spanish and Nahua forces led by Pedro de Alvarado in 1524.
A Kʼicheʼ speaker. Kʼicheʼ ([kʼiˈtʃʰeʔ], also known as Qatzijobʼal lit. ' our language ' among its speakers), or Quiché (/ k iː ˈ tʃ eɪ / kee-CHAY [2]), is a Mayan language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people of the central highlands in Guatemala and Mexico.
Santa Cruz del Quiché is a city, with a population of 78,279 (2018 census), [3] in Guatemala.It serves as the capital of the El Quiché department and the municipal seat of Santa Cruz del Quiché municipality.
Santa María Nebaj (Spanish pronunciation:; usually abbreviated to Nebaj) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.Santa María Nebaj is part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul.
Chichicastenango, also known as Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, is a town, with a population of 71,394 (2018 census), [3] and the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name in the El Quiché department of Guatemala.
In pre-colonial times, the area was known as Sajcabajá and was populated by one of the lineages of the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj.After the defeat of the K'iche', the Spanish colonial presence in Sajcabajá began between 1552 and 1580, when the Dominican convent in Sacapulas was put in charge of the conversión of its population, through the colonial reducciones system. [2]