Concepción Tutuapa

Concepción Tutuapa on the map of Guatemala

Concepción Tutuapa is a village and a municipality in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala. The town is located approximately 320 km north- west of Guatemala City and just 60 km north of San Marcos Departamentshauptstadt in the highlands of the Sierra Madre to 2,910 meters above sea level.

Concepción Tutuapa can be reached from San Marcos on a country road that leads east of the volcano on La Tajumulco Grandeza, Serchil and Tejutla in the remote north of the department. In the 176 km ² large municipality of about 60,000 inhabitants, of which the vast majority in the country. Subsistence farming is the norm, the craft plays a subordinate role. In addition to the main town of the municipality consists of the rural communities ( Aldeas ) Belajuyape, Chipomal, Huispache, Ixcamiche, Nimchim, Saquichinlaj, Sichivila, Sochel, Talhuito, Tictucabe, Tuichuna, Tuimuca, Tuizmo, Tutuapa and Yamoj and from more than 100 hamlets. The capital of Municipalities was originally Tutuapa, 1908 he was moved to its present, five kilometers away place. The majority of the population belongs to the Mam Maya, which is also reflected in the names. The name Concepción Tutuapa is, as so often in Central America from a Spanish- colonial part of a religious reference ( Concepción refers to the Immaculate Conception, which is celebrated each on December 8th) and of an older indigenous part ( Tutuapa means " bird River "or " river of the birds ").

Adjacent Municipalities are San Miguel Ixtahuacán in the east, Ixchiguan in the south, San José Ojetenam in the west, and the Municipalities Cuilco and San Idelfonso Ixtahuacán in the north which belong already to the neighboring department of Huehuetenango.