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Quiché (department) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 15 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 15.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 090 55 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -90.9167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited mostly by Mayas who raise cattle, corn, and beans in lowlands, coffee, and sugar in hills; known for religious center of Chichicastenango; damaged by earthquake of 1976; oppression of Amerindians led to their flight to Mexico in 1980s. |
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| Quiché (preferred,C,V)
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| Quiché, Departamento del (C,V)
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| Departamento del Quiché (C,V,O)
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| Departamento de El Quiché (C,U)
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| GT14 (C,U,FIPS)
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Quiché (department) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| department (preferred, C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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| agricultural land (C) |
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