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

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