| Official Name: | Concepción |
| Pushpin Map: | Guatemala |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guatemala |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sololá |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Concepción |
| Leader Title: | Acting Mayor (2015-2016) |
| Leader Name: | Pedro Juracán Lopic[1] |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population As Of: | Census 2002 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Population Blank2: | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
| Coordinates: | 14.7833°N -91.15°W |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Cwb |
Concepción (pronounced as /es/) is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala. The outstanding characteristic of the municipality is that 100% of its inhabitants are native people.[2]
There is not any exact record of the exact foundation date of the town; it is known, however, that there was a time that it was called "Concepción Quechelaj" and "Concepción Paquixalá" according to several documents form the Spanish Colony era. The word "Quechelaj" is from the kakchikel language and means "River of thorns". After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala the town was called "Nuestra Señora de La Concepción" after the Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.[3] However, the town changed name several times after that.
During the Spanish Colony it was part of the Tecpán Atitlán district and when Tecpán became an "alcaldía mayor" (English:Major municipality) of Sololá Nuestra Señora de La Concepción became part of it, as reported in 1749. Documents from 1765 show its name as "Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Pajixolá". And in 1770, archbishop Pedro Cortés y Larraz described the town as "Concepción Kixalá, part of San Francisco Panajachel parish".
According to a record from 1892, Concepción is reported as a municipality of Sololá Department.
See also: La Linea corruption case.
On 11 October 2015, a little over a month after the municipal elections for the 2016–20 mayoral term, an angry mob lynched and murdered re-elected Mayor Basilio Juracán, from the LIDER party, accusing him of allegedly ordering a hit against his former competitor for the mayor office from the Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza party —UNE—; the mob burned two vehicles and three houses, among those the one where the deceased mayor was hiding.[4]
Concepción has a temperate climate (Köppen: Cwb).
The municipal capital is 6 km away from Sololá and 146 km away of Guatemala City.