| Official Name: | Chimaltenango |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality and city |
| Pushpin Map: | Guatemala |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guatemala |
| Pushpin Map1: | Chimaltenango |
| Pushpin Map Caption1: | Location in Chimaltenango Department --> |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
| Subdivision Type1: | Department |
| Subdivision Name1: | Chimaltenango |
| Leader Title1: | Mayor |
| Leader Name1: | Carlos Alexánder Simaj[1] |
| Leader Party1: | Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza --> |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Total Km2: | 86 |
| Population As Of: | 2018 census |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 96985 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Urban: | 96985 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 14.6622°N -90.8208°W |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Climate |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Cwb |
Chimaltenango is a city in Guatemala with a population of 96,985 (2018 census).[3] It serves as both the capital of the department of Chimaltenango and the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. Chimaltenango stands some 35miles west of Guatemala City, on the Pan-American Highway. The municipal capital produces textiles and pottery.
In Pre-Columbian times, what is now the city of Chimaltenango was known to its native inhabitants as B'oko'. Like many other cities in the area, the Spanish Conquistadores used the name given by their Nahuatl speaking allies from central Mexico. The Nahuatl name was Chīmaltenānco, meaning "Shield City". The current town was founded in 1526 by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Portocarrero, and shortly after it was assigned by Bishop Francisco Marroquín to the Order of Preachers, along with Jocotenango, Jilotepeque, Sumpango, Candelaria, Amatitlán, Petapa, Mixco, and Pinula. These were the general areas under the jurisdiction of "Valle de Pasuya" (English: Pasuya Valley) in those days (which had nine valleys), among them the Chimaltenango Valley. This valley bordered with Xilotepeque valley on the northwest, with Mixco valley on the East, with Guatemala on the North, and with Sololá Prinvice on the West. Furthermore, the Valle of Pasuya had two mayor municipalities: Chimaltenango (which included the Chimaltenango, Xilotepeque, and Alotenango valleys), and Sacatepéquez (which included the remainder).
After independence from Spain in 1821, the town was elevated to "Villa" status in 1825 but apparently lost some luster, as one can infer from archeologist Alfred Percival Maudslay wife's description from a trip there in 1895. Anne Cary Maudslay, wrote: "We were not tempted to loiter for long, and rode on again over the dull plain to the uninteresting town of Chimaltenango, where we proposed to spend the night. The hotel was dirty and the bedrooms so unpleasant that we would have none of them, and sent Gorgonio to hunt for an empty room in which we could put up our own beds. This he found in a "meson", or caravanserai, attached to the hotel, where there was a good-sized room and a rough kitchen opening on a patio in which we could turn the beasts loose for the night. A sprinkling with water, a good sweeping, and a free use of Keating's powder, soon made the room habitable. The supper at the hotel was, however, far above the average, and the only thing to complain of was the poor forage supplied to the mules."
América de Chimaltenango football club has played the 2009 - 2010 season in Guatemala's second division. They play their home games in the Estadio Municipal de Chimaltenango.
Chimaltenango has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).
It is completely surrounded by Chimaltenango Department municipalities: