Quiché Department
Quiché Department
Departmento de El Quiché | |
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Department | |
Sunrise in Finca Acul, El Quiché, Guatemala. | |
| Coordinates: 15°1′48″N 91°9′0″W / 15.03000°N 91.15000°W | |
| Country | Guatemala |
| Capital | Santa Cruz del Quiché |
| Municipalities | 21 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Departmental |
| • Governor | Otto Ervin Macz Hó |
| Area | |
• Department | 8,378 km2 (3,235 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 3,200 m (10,500 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 150 m (490 ft) |
| Population (2018) | |
• Department | 949,261 |
| • Urban | 306,569 |
| • Ethnicities | Kʼicheʼ Ixil Uspantek Sakapultek Poqomchiʼ Ladino |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
| Time zone | UTC-6 |
| ISO 3166 code | GT-QC |
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Quiché (Spanish pronunciation: [kiˈtʃe]) is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples, to the north-west of Guatemala City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word Kʼicheʼ comes from the language of the same name, which means "many trees".