Santa María Nebaj
Santa María Nebaj
Nebaj | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
The central plaza of Nebaj, 2006 | |
Santa María Nebaj Location in Guatemala | |
| Coordinates: 15°24′30″N 91°8′50″W / 15.40833°N 91.14722°W | |
| Country | Guatemala |
| Department | El Quiché |
| Municipality | Santa María Nebaj |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| • Mayor (2016-2020) | José Adolfo Quezada Valdez (LIDER) |
| Area | |
• Municipality | 215 sq mi (558 km2) |
| Elevation | 6,200 ft (1,900 m) |
| Population (Census 2018) | |
• Municipality | 72,686 |
| • Density | 337/sq mi (130/km2) |
| • Urban | 31,935 |
| • Ethnicities | Ixil K'iche' Ladino |
| • Religions | Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy Evangelicalism (then recent historically) Roman Catholicism Maya |
| Climate | Cfb |
Santa María Nebaj (Spanish pronunciation: [neˈβax]; usually abbreviated to Nebaj) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Santa María Nebaj is part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul. Native residents speak the Mayan Ixil language.
The community is named in part for Nebaj, a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Maya civilization.