San Juan Cotzal is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. San Juan Cotzal is part of the Ixil Community, along with Santa Maria Nebaj and San Gaspar Chajul.
The complex terrain and remoteness of the Cuchumatanes made Spanish conquest difficult.
Image: Huipil San Juan Cotzal 1990 01
Quiché is a department of Guatemala. It is in the heartland of the Kʼicheʼ (Quiché) people, one of the Maya peoples, to the north-west of Guatemala City. The capital is Santa Cruz del Quiché. The word Kʼicheʼ comes from the language of the same name, which means "many trees".
Sunrise in Finca Acul, El Quiché, Guatemala.
Chichicastenango Market, 1996