Official Name: | Acul |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Guatemala |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Acul in Guatemala |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
Subdivision Name1: | El Quiché |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Acul |
Government Type: | Municipal |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Urban: | c. 2000 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Ixil, K'iche', |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Population Blank2: | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
Coordinates: | 15.4177°N -91.1473°W |
Acul is a town in the Quiché Department in Guatemala. It is located just north but out of view from the town of Nebaj.[1] The town was destroyed and much of its population brutally massacred by the National Army in the Guatemalan Civil War, but was later rebuilt in 1983 by the Government of Guatemala as a model town for other settlements similarly affected by the violence of the Civil War.[2]