| Official Name: | Uspantán |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Guatemala |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guatemala |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
| Subdivision Name1: | El Quiché |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | San Miguel Uspantán |
| Government Type: | Municipal |
| Leader Title: | Alcalde |
| Leader Name: | Víctor Hugo Figueroa |
| Area Total Km2: | 860 |
| Population As Of: | Census 2018 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 65872 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Urban: | 6664 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank1: | Uspantek, K'iche', Ixil, Q’eqchi’, Ladino |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Population Blank2: | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
| Coordinates: | 15.3458°N -90.8694°W |
| Elevation M: | 1825 |
| Elevation Max M: | 2500 |
| Elevation Min M: | 500 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Cwb |
Uspantán is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. It is one of the largest municipalities of El Quiché and stretches from the mountainous highlands in the South to the tropical lowlands in the North. The municipal seat is in Villa de San Miguel Uspantán with a population of 2,800. The birthplace of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, a community named Laj Chimel, is located Uspantán not far from the municipal seat. Completion of paving on the road in from Chichicastenango has brought a small tourist boom to the town.
The municipality includes the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chitinamit, believed to be Jakawitz, the first capital of the K'iche' Maya.[2] [3]