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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUEHUETANANGO (i.e. in the See also:local See also:Indian See also:dialect, " See also:City of the Ancients ")  , the See also:capital of the See also:department of See also:Huehuetanango, western See also:Guatemala, rob m . W.N.W. of Guatemala See also:city, on the right See also:bank and near the source of the See also:river Salegua, a tributary of the See also:Chiapas . Pop . (1905) about 12,000 . Huehuetanango was built near the site of the See also:ancient See also:Indian city of Zakuleu, now represented by some ruins on a neighbouring See also:ridge surrounded by deep ravines . It is the See also:principal See also:town of a fertile upland region, which produces See also:coffee, See also:cocoa and many See also:European and tropical fruits . Chiantla, a neighbouring town mainly inhabited by See also:Indians, was See also:long the headquarters of a successful Dominican See also:mission; its See also:convent, enriched by the gifts of pilgrims and the revenues of the See also:silver mines owned by the monks, became one of the wealthiest See also:foundations in Central See also:America . It was secularized in 1893, and the mines have been abandoned .

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