Santiago Sacatepéquez () is a town, with a population of 24,100 (2018 census),Citypopulation.de Population of cities & towns in Guatemala and a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. It is well known for a kite festival held here annually on November 1.
History
Santiago Sacatepéquez is located in a valley that the Spanish conquistadores called "de Sacatepéquez" (English: Valle of Sacatepéquez) in the 1520s. That valley was bordered by the valley of Xilotepeque on the West, those of Mixco and las Vacas on the North, and by the Chiquimula province and the South and East. The town was described as a rich town with several hundred families and as having "cold climate" by Irish friar Thomas Gage in his 1648 book about his travels through America in the 1620s and 1630s.
In the 1540s, bishop Francisco Marroquín split the ecclesiastical administration of the central valley of Guatemala between the Order of Preachers and the Franciscans, assigning Sumpango's curato to the former. In 1638, the Dominicans separated their large doctrines in groups revolving around six convents:
+Order of Preachers convents and doctrines in 1638ConventDoctrines or curatosConventDoctrines or curatosGuatemala Chimaltenango Jocotenango Sumpango San Juan Sacatepéquez San Pedro Sacatepéquez Santiago Sacatepéquez Rabinal San Martín Jilotepeque Escuintla Milpas Altas Milpas Bajas San Lucas Sacatepéquez Santo Domingo neighborhoodAmatitlán Amatitlán Petapa Mixco San CristóbalVerapaz Cahabón Cobán Chamelco San Cristóbal TacticSonsonate Nahuizalco TacuxcalcoSan Salvador Apastepeque Chontales Cojutepeque Cuscatlán Milpas Bajas TonacatepequeSacapulas Sacapulas Cunén Nebaj Santa Cruz San Andrés Sajcabajá Zacualpa Chichicastenango
Ecclesiastic historian Domingo Juarros wrote that in 1754, by virtue of a royal order of the borbon reforms of king Carlos III all curatos and doctrines of the regular clergy were moved on to the secular clergy. Also, in 1766 the Chimaltenango and Sacatepéquez municipalities tried to join, but it did not work out and they remained split until after independence from Spain in 1821.
Education
+Education percentagesLevelMaleFemalePreschool52.2 % 51.7 %Elementary93.1 % 93.5 %Junior high33.9 % 28.0 % High school1.6 % 1.2 % +Illiteracy by genderMaleFemale 89.8% 73.8% +Illiteracy human settlementsIlliterary percentage for people older than 15 years old is 28% with a population of 5274 people younger than 15 year.Urban populationRural population 25% 53%
Climate
Santiago Sacatepéquez has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).
Geographic location
See also
Chajoma La Aurora International Airport
Notes and references
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