HUEHUETANANGO (i.e. in the

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• LOCAL

local

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• INDIAN

Indian

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• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect, "

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• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

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