Nahualá

Nahualá (Spanish pronunciation: [nawaˈla]) is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The town is sometimes known as Santa Catalina Nahualá in honor of the town's patron saint, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, but the official name is just "Nahualá". Formerly, the town's name was written Nagualá, and earlier transcriptions of the name in colonial documents include Nauala, Niguala, Niuala, and Navala.

Nahualá or Nawala' is also the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) language name for the Nahualate River, which is called Niwala' in the local Nahualá dialect. The river has its source in the north of the township of Nahualá, and flows through the center of the town's cabecera ("head-town").

Nahualá is the location of radio station Nawal Estereo, the Internet-accessible modern successor to the station La Voz de Nahualá, which was founded in Nahualá with the assistance of Roman Catholic clerics from the Diocese of Helena Montana in the 1960s. Nowadays, the station broadcasts primarily in the Kʼicheʼ language, with some broadcasts also done in Kaqchikel and Spanish.