Santa Maria Nebaj Nebaj | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 15°24′30″N 91°8′50″W / 15.40833°N 91.14722°W | |
Kintra | Guatemala |
Depairtment | El Quiché |
Municipality | Santa Maria Nebaj |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Municipal |
Elevation | 1900 m (6,200 ft) |
Population (Census 2002) | |
• Municipality | 53,617 |
• Urban | 18,484 |
• Ethnicities | Ixil K'iche' Ladino |
• Releegions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
Santa Maria Nebaj (uisually abbreviatit tae Nebaj) is a municipality in the Guatemalan depairtment o El Quiché. Santa Maria Nebaj is pairt o the Ixil Commonty, alang wi San Juan Cotzal an San Gaspar Chajul. Native residents speak the Mayan Ixil leid.
Thare is a nearbi pre-Columbie airchaeological steid o the Maya ceevilization, cried Nebaj.