Chiquimula is a city in 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...

. It serves both as the capital of the department

Departments of Guatemala

||Guatemala is divided into 22 departments :#Alta Verapaz#Baja Verapaz#Chimaltenango#Chiquimula#Petén#El Progreso#El Quiché#Escuintla#Guatemala#Huehuetenango#Izabal#Jalapa#Jutiapa#Quetzaltenango#Retalhuleu#Sacatepéquez...

 of Chiquimula and as the municipal seat for the surrounding 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...

 of the same name.
It is some 174 km from Guatemala City

Guatemala City

Guatemala City , is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America...

 and is in Guatemala often called "La perla del oriente" (the oriental pearl).

A municipality of Totonicapan

Totonicapán (department)

Totonicapán is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Totonicapán.- Municipalities :# Momostenango# San Andrés Xecul# San Bartolo# San Cristóbal Totonicapán# San Francisco El Alto# Santa Lucía La Reforma...

 is called Santa Maria Chiquimula

Santa María Chiquimula

Santa María Chiquimula is a municipality in the Totonicapán department of Guatemala....

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Notable people

• Ismael Cerna
  Ismael Cerna
  Ismael Cerna was a Guatemalan poet.-Biography:Cerna was born in Chiquimula in 1856. He graduated as a Bachelor of Philosophy and later in medicine and law. He later joined the army but after the fall of Vicente Cerna was captured with his uncle and imprisoned. On his release he went to El Salvador...
  
   (1856-1901) - poet
• Yony Flores
  Yony Flores
  Yony Flores is a Guatemalan football defender who plays for CSD Municipal in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala.-Club career:Flores started his career at Sacachispas...
  
   - Guatemalan international football player
• Humberto Porta Mencos (1900-1974) - poet

Sports

Sacachispas

Sacachispas

Club Social y Deportivo Sacachispas is a professional football club based in Chiquimula, Guatemala.The team plays in the Primera División de Ascenso, the second-highest football division in Guatemala. Their home stadium is the Estadio Las Victorias....

 football club play in the Primera División de Ascenso

Primera División de Ascenso

The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...

, the second-highest football division in Guatemala. Their home stadium is the Estadio Las Victorias

Estadio Las Victorias

Estadio Las Victorias is a soccer stadium located in Chiquimula, Guatemala. It is home to second division club Sacachispas, and has a capacity of 9,000....

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The club has also played in 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...

, having reached their best position in the 1995-96 season, when they were runners-up. They have been playing in the second division

Primera División de Ascenso

The Primera División de Ascenso is the second highest level of the Guatemalan league system of football. Formerly, it was known as Liga Mayor "B"...

since 2000.