| Official Name: | San Pedro Soloma |
| Native Name: | Tzu'luma |
| Nickname: | El Valle del Ensueño |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Guatemala |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guatemala |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Guatemala |
| Subdivision Name1: | Huehuetenango |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | San Pedro Soloma |
| Government Type: | Municipal |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Joel Cardona 2024-2028 |
| Established Date: | 2012 |
| Area Total Km2: | 264 |
| Area Land Km2: | 266 |
| Population As Of: | Census 2018 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 49030 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Urban Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Urban: | 14166 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank1: | Q'anjob'al, Ladino |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Population Blank2: | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
| Timezone: | UTC-6 |
| Coordinates: | 15.7167°N -91.45°W |
| Elevation M: | 2300 |
| Elevation Max M: | 3500 |
| Elevation Min M: | 1900 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Cwb |
| Website: | Site |
San Pedro Soloma (also known as Tzu'luma in Qʼanjobʼal) is a town and municipality of Huehuetenango, a department of Guatemala. It is located in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes at 2,300 m above sea level. The municipality covers a total area of 264 km2 with elevations ranging from 1,900 m to 3,500 m. Its population of 49,030 is spread over the town of Soloma, 19 villages and 50 smaller rural communities (caserios).[3] The annual celebrations in honor of the town's patron Saint Peter take place from June 24 to 30. Its mayan name is Tzu'luma.[4]
See also: Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in the 1520s, the "Presentación de Guatemala" Mercedarian province was formed in 1565; originally, the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy had gotten from bishop Francisco Marroquín several doctrines in the Sacatepéquez and Chimaltenango valleys, close to the capital Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, but they traded those with the Order of Preachers friars in exchange for the doctrines those had in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes area. During the first part of the 17th century they also had doctrine in four town close to the city of Santiago, which eventually became city neighborhoods: Espíritu Santo, Santiago, San Jerónimo and San Anton —which was the capital of the Mercedarians, where they had their convent and where their comendador lived.
According to bishop Juan de las Cabezas memoir in 1613 and the bishop Pedro Cortés y Larraz parish visit minutes from 1770, the Mercedarians came to have nine doctrines, and numerous annexes, which were: Santa Ana de Malacatán, Concepción de Huehuetenango, San Pedro de Solomá, Nuestra Señora de la Purificación de Jacaltenango, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Chiantla, San Andrés de Cuilco, Santiago de Tejutla, San Pedro de Sacatepéquez, and San Juan de Ostuncalco.
However, in 1754, due to the borbon reforms implemented by the Spanish kings, the Mercedarins -and the rest of the regular clergy for that matter-, had to transfer their doctrines to the secular clergy, thus losing their Chiantla convent and annexed doctrines.
. Pedro Cortés y Larraz. Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala. 1770. Guatemala. Diócesis de Guatemala. es.