Santa Maria Nebaj

Santa Maria Nebaj

Nebaj
Municipality
Santa Maria Nebaj is located in Guatemala
Santa Maria Nebaj
Santa Maria Nebaj
Location in Guatemala
Coordinates: 15°24′30″N 91°8′50″W / 15.40833°N 91.14722°W / 15.40833; -91.14722
Kintra Guatemala
DepairtmentEl Quiché
MunicipalitySanta Maria Nebaj
Govrenment
 • TeepMunicipal
Elevation
1900 m (6,200 ft)
Population
 (Census 2002)
 • Municipality53,617
 • 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.

Freemit airtins

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