Official Name: | Chiquimulilla |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Guatemala |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guatemala |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
Subdivision Name1: | Santa Rosa |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 573 |
Population As Of: | 2018 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 53727 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 14.0833°N -113°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 272 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Aw |
Chiquimulilla is a town and municipality in the Santa Rosa department of Guatemala. It is located about from the Pacific coast.
The town is an important regional trade location and junction. The most important products are leather goods. The town of Chiquimulilla had a population of 18,848 at the time of the 2018 census.[3]
Some descendants of the Xinca people live in the adjacent area. This ethnicity was almost completely wiped out after the conquest of the Spaniards, mostly from infectious diseases that the Europeans brought along. They do not belong to the Maya ethnicity. Only a handful of elders still know the Xinca language.