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Concepción
ConcepciónLocation in Guatemala
Coordinates: 14°47′00″N 91°09′00″W / 14.78333°N 91.15000°W / 14.78333; -91.15000
Country	Guatemala
Department	Sololá
Municipality	Concepción
Government
• Acting Mayor (2015-2016)	Pedro Juracán Lopic
Population
• Religions	Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya
Climate	Cwb

Concepción (Spanish pronunciation: [konseβˈsjon]) is a municipality in the Sololá department 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. 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 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.

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 a temperate climate (Köppen: Cwb).

Geographic location

The municipal capital is 6 km away from Sololá and 146 km away of Guatemala City.

v t e Places adjacent to Concepción, Sololá
Chichicastenango, Quiché Department municipality Panajachel and Sololá, Sololá Department municipalities Concepción Chichicastenango, Quiché Department municipality San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá Department municipality

See also

• Guatemala portal
• Geography portal
• List of places in Guatemala

Notes and references

1. Mayor Basilio Juracán -who served from 2008 to 2015- had been reelected for yet a third period in 2015, but he was lynched and murdered on 11 October 2015 after allegedly ordering a hit on a former competitor for the Mayoral office.

References

1. "Alcaldes electos en el departamento de Sololá". Municipalidades de Guatemala (in Spanish). Guatemala. 12 October 2015. Archived from the original on October 12, 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
2. ^ "Turba mata a alcalde en Concepción, Sololá tras ataque a exrival". Siglo 21 (in Spanish). Guatemala. 11 October 2015. Archived from the original on October 12, 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
3. Escalante Herrera, Marco Antonio (2007). "Municipio de Concepción, Sololá". Pbase (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on June 18, 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
4. "Municipio de Concepción, Sololá" (PDF). Ejercicio Profesional Supervisado (in Spanish). Guatemala: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala.
5. Cortés y Larraz 1770.
6. "Climate: Concepción". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
7. Departamento de Investigación y servicios meteorológicos. "Isotermas de temperatura mínima absoluta anual" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on May 17, 2012.; "Isotermas de temperatura máxima absoluta anual". Archived from the original on May 24, 2012.; "Isotermas de temperatura máxima promedio anual". Archived from the original on May 15, 2012.; "Isotermas de temperature mínima promedio annual". Archived from the original on May 29, 2012.; "Sumatoria de días con lluvia promedio anual". Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Metereología e Hidrología (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on May 15, 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
8. ^ SEGEPLAN. "Municipios del departamento de Sololá". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.

Bibliography

• Cortés y Larraz, Pedro (1770). Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala (in Spanish). Guatemala: Diócesis de Guatemala.

v t e Sololá Department, Guatemala
Capital	Sololá
Municipalities	Concepción Nahualá Panajachel San Andrés Semetabaj San Antonio Palopó San José Chacayá San Juan La Laguna San Lucas Tolimán San Marcos La Laguna San Pablo La Laguna San Pedro La Laguna Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan Santa Catarina Palopó Santa Clara La Laguna Santa Cruz La Laguna Santa Lucía Utatlán Santa María Visitación Santiago Atitlán Sololá

14°47′00″N 91°09′00″W / 14.7833°N 91.15°W / 14.7833; -91.15

• Municipalities of the Sololá Department