Concepción () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in the
Sololá department
Sololá is a department in the west of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Sololá. Lake Atitlan is a key feature surrounded by a number of the municipalities.
Municipalities
# Concepción
# Nahualá
# Panajachel
# San Andrés Semeta ...
of
Guatemala. The outstanding characteristic of the municipality is that 100% of its inhabitants are native people.
History
Spanish Colony
There is not any exact record of the exact foundation date of the town; it is known, however, that there was a time that it was called "Concepción Quechelaj" and "Concepción Paquixalá" according to several documents form the Spanish Colony era. The word "Quechelaj" is from the kakchikel language and means "River of thorns". After the
Spanish conquest of Guatemala the town was called "Nuestra Señora de La Concepción" after the
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth wh ...
.
However, the town changed name several times after that.
During the Spanish Colony it was part of the
Tecpán Atitlán district and when Tecpán became an "alcaldía mayor" (English:Major municipality) of
Sololá __NOTOC__
Sololá is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Sololá and the administrative seat of Sololá municipality. It is located close to Lake Atitlan.
The name is a Hispanicized form of its pre-Columbian name, one s ...
Nuestra Señora de La Concepción became part of it, as reported in 1749. Documents from 1765 show its name as "Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Pajixolá". And in 1770, archbishop
Pedro Cortés y Larraz described the town as "Concepción Kixalá, part of
San Francisco Panajachel parish".
After Independence from Spain
According to a record from 1892, Concepción is reported as a municipality of
Sololá Department
Sololá is a department in the west of Guatemala. The capital is the city of Sololá. Lake Atitlan is a key feature surrounded by a number of the municipalities.
Municipalities
# Concepción
# Nahualá
# Panajachel
# San Andrés Semeta ...
.
21st century
On 11 October 2015, a little over a month after the municipal elections for the 2016–20 mayoral term, an angry mob lynched and murdered re-elected Mayor Basilio Juracán, from the LIDER party, accusing him of allegedly ordering a hit against his former competitor for the mayor office from the
Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza party —UNE—; the mob burned two vehicles and three houses, among those the one where the deceased mayor was hiding.
Climate
Concepción has temperate climate (
Köppen: ''Csb'').
Geographic location
The municipal capital is 6 km away from
Sololá __NOTOC__
Sololá is a city in Guatemala. It is the capital of the department of Sololá and the administrative seat of Sololá municipality. It is located close to Lake Atitlan.
The name is a Hispanicized form of its pre-Columbian name, one s ...
and 146 km away of
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, ne ...
.
See also
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List of places in Guatemala
Notes and references
References
Bibliography
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Municipalities of the Sololá Department