San Antonio Huista
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San Antonio Huista is a municipality
in the Guatemala
n department
of Huehuetenango. It is located 362 kilometers from Guatemala City. The predominant language is Spanish
, while approximately 20% of the population speak indigenous languages, the majority speaking Mam
. San Antonio Huista is situated at 1240m above sea level
, with a population of 13,750 people. It covers a terrain of 256km2. The annual festival is December 8-12 dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe and the patron saint's day (Saint Anthony of Padua) is celebrated June 11-13.
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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 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...
n department
Departments of Guatemala
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of Huehuetenango. It is located 362 kilometers from Guatemala City. The predominant language is Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, while approximately 20% of the population speak indigenous languages, the majority speaking Mam
Mam language
Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480,000 speakers as of 2002, spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and San Marcos....
. San Antonio Huista is situated at 1240m above sea level
Sea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...
, with a population of 13,750 people. It covers a terrain of 256km2. The annual festival is December 8-12 dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe and the patron saint's day (Saint Anthony of Padua) is celebrated June 11-13.
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