Asunción Mita
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Asunción Mita is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Jutiapa department
Departments of Guatemala
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 of Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

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In Asunción Mita two titular celebrations are celebrated: first from the 12th to the 15th of August, in honor to the Virgin of Asunción; and second from the 6th to the 12th of December, in honor to the Virgin of Concepción. Also, they celebrate in honor to the Flower War on August 7th.

Sports

Deportivo Mictlán
Deportivo Mictlán
Deportivo Mictlán is a Guatemalan football team, playing in the top division again in the 2010 Clausura tournament.Nicknamed Los Conejos and based in Asunción Mita, Jutiapa, their home stadium is Estadio La Asunción, which holds 3,000....

 football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, will play the 2010/2011 season at the highest level of Guatemalan football, the Liga Mayor
Liga Nacional de Guatemala
Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala , formerly known as Liga Mayor "A" is a professional football division in Guatemala, the highest one in the country. It is sanctioned by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala...

. They play their home games at the Estadio La Asunción
Estadio La Asunción
Estadio La Asunción is a multi-use stadium in Asunción Mita, Guatemala. It is used mostly for football and is the home stadium of Deportivo Mictlán. The capacity of the stadium is 3,000 people...

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