Mixco () is a

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and municipality in the Guatemala department of

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. It is next to the main Guatemala City municipality and has become part of the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area. Most of Mixco is separated from the City by

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, for which a multitude of bridges have been created. It is the second largest city in Guatemala after

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, with a population of 475,777. Ciudad San Cristóbal is located within Mixco.

Administrative division

The municipality is divided into zones with residential neighborhoods, villages, settlements and the municipal capital. Due to its close proximity to

, several villages were turned into residential neighborhoods. From the residential neighborhoods is excluded "La Florida", which separated from Mixco to join

in 1958.

Mayors

Universities

* UruralG * UPANA * USAC *

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Sports

Deportivo Mixco football club play in the Guatemalan second division. They have been playing their home games at different locations and plan to build the new Estadio de La Tierra de Campeones.Estadio del Deportivo Mixco
- Deportivo Mixco

In film

* In 1969, the Mexican-Guatemalan film '' El ogro'', with famous Mexican comedian Germán Valdéz and Guatemalan actor Herbert Meneses was filmed on location in

Tikal Tikal (; ''Tik'al'' in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the Pre-Col ...

and Mixco. The scenes shot in Mixco include Germán Valdéz as an old church keeper and a group of children who listen to his old stories.

Climate

Mixco has a

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(

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: ''Cwb'').

Geographic location

References

External links

*
Municipalidad de Mixco
(in Spanish)
La Casa de La Cultura de Mixco
(in Spanish)
Mixco Tierra de Campeones
(in Spanish) {{Authority control Municipalities of the Guatemala Department