Sipacapa
Sipacapa | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Department | San Marcos |
| Municipality | Sipacapa |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
| • Municipality | 14,043 |
| • Urban | 623 |
| • Ethnicities | Sipakapense Ladino |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya |
Sipacapa is a municipality in the San Marcos department, situated in the Western highlands of Guatemala. Sipacapa's population of around 14,000 is spread among 14 village communities, skattered over mountainous terrain. Sipacapa is considered a linguistic community, as Sipakapense is a Maya language unique to the municipality.
Sipacapa is currently the center of a dispute between local farmers, primarily of Mayan (Sipakapense) descent, and Goldcorp, a Canadian company that already operates an open pit goldmine mostly the neighbouring municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacán, but partially in Sipacapa. This dispute has been documented in a documentary film production, Sipakapa No Se Vende (Sipacapa Is Not For Sale) .[2][3]
Notes
- ^ "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|accessyear=and|accessmonthday=(help) - ^ Mariano Aiello & Kristina Hille. "Open-pit mining of gold in Guatemala: Marlin Project". Manacudo Films. Retrieved 2008-06-02.
- ^ Dir. Álvaro Revenga. "Sipakapa No Se Vende". Caracol Producciones. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
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