Official Name: | San Cristóbal Totonicapán |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Image Map1: | TotonicapanGUAT.PNG |
Mapsize1: | 150px |
Map Caption1: | Totonicapán within Guatemala |
Pushpin Map Caption: | > |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Totonicapán |
Government Type: | Municipal |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Area Total Km2: | 52.8 |
Population As Of: | 2018 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 36119 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | K'iche', Ladino |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Population Blank2: | Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
San Cristóbal Totonicapán is a town, with a population of 36,119,[2] and a municipality in the Totonicapán department in the South-Western region of Guatemala. It celebrates its titular party on 25 July.
Spanish-born businessman Juan Bautista Gutiérrez migrated to San Cristóbal Totonicapán in the 1920s and began some of his first business ventures there, running a bookstore and making candles. He was eventually elected mayor for a time and helped introduce electricity and other viable infrastructure to the then-small indigenous town, including a bridge over the Samalá River that is still in good, working condition and actively utilized by the community. In addition, his children, including his daughter Isabel, were all born in San Cristóbal Totonicapán.