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Located a few kilometers from the capital city of Chimaltenango is a department full of color and tradition. That color has been impregnated not only by the painters of Comalapa, but by the historical events that have become an important place in the history of Guatemala.

Archaeological sites and Iximché Mixco Viejo, have as a place that shelter Chimaltenango, which tell us to be visited due to its construction and the remains that can still be found, there lived the events, for example, name the first capital of the kingdom of Guatemala, founded in Iximché (Tecpán), the July 25, 1524.

His famous “donuts”, which are orange loaves that are usually seen in the markets, are mostly from this place, which are part of the memories that are usually bought to visit.

Within its traditions can not avoid mentioning the visits by locals and visitors to San Simon in San Andres Itzapa, who believers say grants requests related to health, money and love in exchange for offerings.

The history of Chimaltenango or B’oko ‘, relates to the power center and later Kaqchikel develop the valley of the Spanish city. While these lands were the domain of the Maya, the population had a peripheral relationship Iximché.

In the late seventeenth Francisco Vásquez writes that the King directed that kingdom Ahpotzotzil and although it was the size of the Quiche kingdom had several villages. This king founded another center for his brother in Tecpán Ahpoxahil Atitlan, a place identified as Kahay, between Patzun and Patzicía.

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