Tacaná

Tacaná on the map of Guatemala

Tacaná is a place and a municipality in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala. The town is located approximately 350 km north-west of Guatemala City and about 70 km northwest of the capital Departaments - San Marcos in the highlands of the Sierra Madre to 2,410 meters above sea level.

Tacaná can be reached from San Marcos on a country road that leads east of the volcano on La Tajumulco Grandeza, Serchil and Ixchiguan as well as the 3,400 meter high pass Cumbre de Cotzil in the remote north-west of the department. South of the town of 4,093 meter high volcano Tacaná rises, passes over the the border with Mexico. In the other directions of about 9,000 inhabitants, place some 3,000 meters high mountains surrounded. Tacaná is located in the headwaters of the Río Coatán which flows westward into neighboring Chiapas.

In the 302 km ² large municipality Tacaná around 90,000 people live, of which the vast majority in the country. Besides the main town, there is the municipality from the rural communities ( Aldeas ) Chanjulé, Chequim Grande, Cunlaj, El Rosario, Las Majadas Sajquim, San Luis, San Rafael, Sanajaba, Sujchay, Toaca, Tojcheche, Tuicoche and Vista Hermosa, and a total of approximately 150 hamlets. This part, extremely remote locations often have closer ties to the Mexican Chiapas as to the rest of Guatemala. In addition to agriculture and sheep farming in particular the production of woolen textiles plays a role.

Adjacent Municipalities are San José Ojetenam the east and Ixchiguan and Sibinal the southeast and south. In the north Tacaná borders the municipality of Tectitán, which is already part of the department of Huehuetenango, on the west by the municipality of Motozintla in the Mexican state of Chiapas.