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Population:
11,385,000
Capital:
Guatemala (City)
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Extract from the Santiago Atitln Travel Guides:
On the opposite side of the lake from Panajachel,
SANTIAGO ATITLN
is set to one side of a sheltered horseshoe inlet, overshadowed by the cones of the San Pedro, Atitln and Tolimn volcanoes. It's the largest and most important of the lakeside villages, and also one of the most traditional, being the main centre of the Tz'utujil-speaking Maya. At the time of the Conquest, the Tz'utujil had their fortified capital,
Chuitinamit-Atitln
, on the slopes of San Pedro, while the bulk of the population lived spread out around the site of today's village. Alvarado and his crew, needless to say, destroyed the capital and massacr...
read the whole Santiago Atitln Travel Guides...
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