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	Quetzaltenango
		Quetzaltenango is the name of a department in Guatemala, as well as the name of the largest city in the department.
		Quetzaltenango is located in a mountain valley at an altitude of 2,333 meters (8,000 feet) above sea level.
		From 1838 to 1840 Quetzaltenango was capital of the state of Los Altos, one of the states or provinces of the United States of Central America.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qu/Quetzaltenango.html (282 words)

	Quetzaltenango Department (Guatemala) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quetzaltenango is the second largest city in Guatemala located in the western part of the country.
		The flag of Quetzaltenango is a vertical red-white-light blue flag with the arms in the center, like the historical flag of the Republic of Los Altos.
		The flag seen on TVE coincides with the flag of the Republic of Los Altos decreed on 13 of September of 1848.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gt-qz.html (346 words)

	Adrenalina Tours - Xela
		Situated in the South-West of the country, stretching from the cold highlands to the hot pacific coast, the department of Quetzaltenango is famous for it's colonial buildings, the oldest in the country since this area was the first to be conquered by the Spanish.
		This beautiful department also stands out because of it's stunning and variable landscape with numerous volcanoes, hot springs, valleys and mountains with a variety of produce: coffee, wheat, fruit and vegetable as well as cattle and sheep.
		It is the Capital of the Department of Quetzaltenango.
	www.xelaenlinea.com /at/westhigh.html (1063 words)

	Quetzaltenango - Travel to Guatemala - Viaje a Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quetzaltenango is the Department that harbors the coldest temperatures in the country in the months of November to February and has natural attractions that have made it an excellent destination for eco-tourism.
		The northern half of the Department anchors the beginning of the axis that forms the volcanic cones in the zone of "high lands" or cold land.
		The complexity of the phenomenon is concentrated in the reduction of traditional cults and the growth of the new ones.
	www.viajeaguatemala.com /english/Quetzaltenango/1051016311152.htm (1150 words)

	Quetzaltenango - Wikitravel
		Situated at the southwest of the country, the surrounding department has a variety of landscapes extending from the cold High Lands to the warm Pacific Coast.
		The city of Quetzaltenango, the Departament's principal town is situated on an extensive plain and surrounded by hills and volcanos.
		San Andres Xecul : 7 kms from Quetzaltenango, in the direction of the "Cuatro Caminos" highway junction, with a colonial-style whose facade is both colorfull and picturesque.
	wikitravel.org /en/Quetzaltenango (1754 words)

	Guatemalaweb.com
		Quetzaltenango is Nahuatl-origin, word that means “Place of Quetzal birds”.
		In 1838, Quetzaltenango became part of the State of Los Altos (The highlands), as sixth member of the Central American federation.
		Quetzaltenango’s surroundings include several villages and tourist sites, of Quiche and Mam origin, and that have several small plazas with amazing colonial-style churches, where the tourist can appreciate the agricultural and handcraft richness of the region on market days.
	www.guatemalaweb.com /2/quetzaltenango.htm (584 words)

	Learn Spanish, Spanish Courses in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Quetzaltenango is the second largest city in Guatemala, located in a mountainous region in the western part of the country, about 200 kilometers from the capital, Guatemala City.
		Buena Vista Los Corrales, Cabricán, Quetzaltanango is a neighborhood of the municipality of Cabricán, located in the northern part of the department of Quetzaltenango, 45 kilometers from the capital city of the department and 2 kilometers from the center of Cabricán.
		The project works with four groups in different communities which are populated largely by women: Chirijox and Chuacruz in the department of Sololá, and Quiejel and Xepatuj in the department of El Quiché, in the northern part of Guatemala.
	www.firststepworld.com /city-Quetzaltenango-pg-volunteer.html (1010 words)

	Urgent Action request from the Guatemalan Maya League
		Quetzaltenango is the second largest of the country next to Guatemala City, the capital.
		55% of the population of Quetzaltenango is descended from the ancient Maya civilization; 45% is Ladina.
		14 Avenida 8-92 Zona 3, Ciudad Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, C.A. Tel-Fax 011-502- 767-6755 E.mai <lmaya@mixmail.com>
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/212.html (712 words)

	Quetzaltenango - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1838 to 1840 Quetzaltenango was capital of the state of Los Altos, one of the states or provinces of the Federal Republic of Central America.
		In the 19th century, coffee was introduced as a major crop in the area and the economy of Xela prospered.
		There are two main seasons in Quetzaltenango: the rainy season which generally runs from May through mid-November, and the dry season which runs from December until May. During the rainy season, rain falls consistently, usually in the afternoons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quetzaltenango (555 words)

	ICA Language School. Guatemala
		Buena Vista Los Corrales, Cabricán, Quetzaltanango is a neighborhood of the municipality of Cabricán, located in the northern part of the department of Quetzaltenango, 45 kilometers from the capital city (Xela) and 2 kilometers from the center of Cabricán.
		The school opened under the name Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta del caserío de Buena Vista aldea Los Corrales, Cabricán, Quetzaltenango (Official Rural Coeducational School of the neighborhood of Buena Vista, area of Los Corrales, Cabricán, Quetzaltenango) and since 1992 has received support from the General Office of Intercultural Bilingual Education of the department of Quetzaltenango.
		Weekly donations of the teachers at I.C.A. The school is one of six named by the department as an Escuela Modelo de Education Bilingue B'E ("Road" Model School of Bilingual Education) in recognition of its role in promoting bilingual education in Quetzaltenango.
	www.xelapages.com /ica/en/icaproj/education.html (1171 words)

	IOB Report: Guatemala / June 28, 1996
		The Department of Justice did examine the issue of the CIA's notifications to Congress at the request of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), but it found that the facts posited by the SSCI did not constitute a sufficient basis upon which to premise a criminal prosecution.
		The Department of State and CIA should amend the State-CIA agreement to ensure that ambassadors and other policy-makers are informed of station activities and asset and liaison relationships that have significant policy implications.
		The Department of State should implement a program to ensure that its bureaus consider including appropriate intelligence-based information in briefings to US citizens (or US relatives of those) who are killed, abducted, or tortured abroad-perhaps without identifying the information as being intelligence-based.
	www.ciponline.org /iob.htm (19512 words)

	Endangered Threads: Photo Album - Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
		The department of Quetzaltenango houses diverse industries related to weaving, including jaspe or ikat dying, embroidering and weaving on back strap and floor looms.
		The traje in the department of Quetzaltenango includes an apron, often with lace edges, a jaspe or ikat skirt, and a hand woven huipil in a style often specific to the community.
		Unique traje or clothing is still in evidence outside of "Xela" or Quetzaltenango, the second largest city in Guatemala.
	www.endangeredthreads.com /photo_anthology/guatemala/quetzaltenango.htm (148 words)

	Quetzaltenango (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		'''Quetzaltenango''' is the second most populous city of Guatemala, after Guatemala City, and is the capital of Quetzaltenango Department.
		Buildings flanking the Central Park Square in Quetzaltenango Building flanking the Central Park Square in Quetzaltenango In 2000 it had an estimated population of 250,000.
		In Pre-Columbian times Quetzaltenango was a city of the Mam Maya people called Xelajú, the name derived from "Xe laju' noj" meaning "place beside ten mountains".
	quetzaltenango.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (542 words)

	Casa Xelaju - Spanish Classes -Frequently Asked Questions about Spanish Study in Guatemala
		Students who arrive on flights in the afternoon are recommended to wait in the airport for pickup and spend the night in Guatemala City (airport help will include ground transportation and hotel).
		Obviously Quetzaltenango has problems with crime like every city in the world.
		The city of Quetzaltenango is a student center with more than 40,000 students.
	casaxelaju.com /cex/faq.htm (849 words)

	Quetzaltenango Department (Guatemala) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brommer Atlas (1862) indicates an identical flag but with the blue on the hoist and the red on the fly (and a quetzal bird in the center) that would correspond to the Republic of Los Altos.
		Jaume reported this department flga as verticl red-white-blue with the CoA.
		Old flag of Los Altos must be the same as the departamental flag but with arms (according was adopted 1848) but Brommer Atlas show the vertical version (perhaps can be a mistake or a variant)
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/gt-qz.html (334 words)

	Inter-American Highway - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		At the end of the year the total spending for goods and services, both public and private, was estimated at $580 billion.
		Quetzaltenango, city in southwestern Guatemala, capital of Quetzaltenango Department.
		Located on the Inter-American Highway, Quetzaltenango is a...
	encarta.msn.com /Inter-American_Highway.html (188 words)

	Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Eduardo Perez Vail
		It is spoken in the departments of Huehuetenango, San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, and Retalhuleu, encompassing a total of fifty-eight municipalities within these four departments.
		Concepción Chiquirichapa and San Martín Sacatepéquez are predominantly Mam-speaking municipalities in the department of Quetzaltenango.
		B’aayil was a linguist from the Mam community (from Cajolá Quetzaltenango) who worked in OKMA beginning in 1994 and was the author or coauthor of Ttxoolil Qyool Mam: Gramática Mam (1997), Gramática Pedagógica Mam (1999), and Tx’ixpub’ente tiib’ qyool: Variación dialectal en Mam (2000), as well as numerous articles and conference papers.
	www.famsi.org /reports/97019/index.html (1143 words)

	Spanish Language Schools in Quezaltenago (Xela): Projects
		Classes are given in the building next to PLQ and activities between students of the PLQ and the children from the Cultural Center are easily organized.
		Proyecto COMPA is a program that brings contemporary films to rural communities in the department of Quetzaltenango that would not otherwise have access to them.
		The Proyecto Reforestación is a collaboration between the PLQE and a group of young K'i'che Mayans who approached the school in mid-2000.
	www.hermandad.com /projects.html (1201 words)

	Community Volunteering and Conservation, Volunteering Programs
		These Guatemala volunteer projects are located in the department of Quetzaltenango, in the rural areas outside the city.
		The project works with two groups in different communities which are populated largely by women: Chirijox and Chuacruz in the department of Sololá, and an artisan family in Momostenango in the department of Totonicapán.
		Quetzaltenango is a city of about 150,000 in the highlands of Guatemala, a city where Mayan and Latino families meet and interact daily.
	www.traveltree.co.uk /volunteering-programs/community-volunteering-and-conservation.htm (2556 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Hermandad Educativa is a sisterhood of two nonprofit language schools in Quetzaltenango (known locally as Xela) and Nuevo San José, Guatemala.
		The police chief of the Department of Quetzaltenango and five police officers were arrested and sentenced to thirty years in prison.
		Profits from the school have supported a number of human rights organizations, projects, and rural communities struggling to improve their situation and improve the lives of poor Guatemalans.
	www.infoserve.net /hermandad/about.shtml (458 words)

	Spanish Language Schools in Quezaltenago (Xela): References
		Quetzaltenango is the second most populous city of Guatemala, after Guatemala City.
		It is both the capital of Quetzaltenango Department and the municipal seat of Quetzaltenango municipality.
		In 2005 it had an estimated population of 300,000.
	www.hermandad.com /xela.html (138 words)

	Chapter 3: Social Movements and the Government Response
		The participation of this important sector of the population in the political and social life of the country was accomplished through the 1,496 Local Agrarian Committees operating in 1953, mainly in the departments with the highest degree of disparity regarding land and where the Agrarian Reform was broadest.
		George Kennan, staff director of the U.S. State Department until 1950, stated that the use of force was necessary to counteract the impact on U.S. security of "communist" governments in Latin America.
		At the same time, offensives were carried out in western and central El Petén department and in the coffee- producing region of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Retalhuleu and Suchitepéquez.
	shr.aaas.org /guatemala/ciidh/dts/socmove.html (6296 words)

	US/LEAP: AFL-CIO GSP Petition on Worker Rights Violations in Guatemala; 12-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2001, the Government of Guatemala "does not enforce effectively labor laws to protect workers who exercise their rights."(1) Guatemalan labor courts are characterized by lengthy backlogs, delays, and above all the inability to enforce their decisions.
		Both the State Department and COVERCO note that lack of involvement of government authorities during the periods of greatest unrest at the Choi Shin/ Cimatextiles plants in July of 2001.
		According to the State Department: "Economic necessity forces most families to have their children seek some type of employment to supplement family income." (34) MINUGUA found in 2000 that 34 percent of children between the ages of 7 and 14 work.
	www.usleap.org /trade/AFL-CIOGSPPetitiononGuate12-02.html (6094 words)

	Ethnologue: Guatemala
		Northern Alta Verapaz, southern Petén departments in Guatemala.
		Southwest of Lake Atitlán, Quezaltenango, and Totonicapan departments.
		Western San Marcos Department; rural areas west of the town of Tacaná, western Guatemala border, and in Sibinal and Tectitán.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Guat.html (855 words)

	Guatemala s Highland Region Cool misty mountains, colorful villages & natural beauty...
		The department of Totonicapan is 207 kilometers distant from Guatemala City.
		It’s capital, Quetzaltenango, or Xela as it is often referred to by the locals, is a beautiful city.
		In the department of Quetzaltenango and just a step away from the Regional Capital are six volcanoes that offer multiple climbing adventures: Santa María, Santiaguito, Cerro Quemado, Siete Orejas, Chikabal, and Lancandón.
	tropicaldiscovery.com /regional_info/atitlan_highlands/vacations.php (1165 words)

	Spanish Courses - Minerva Spanish School - Quetzaltenango Guatemala
		Well-educated Teachers, on average with more than 5 years of experience teaching Spanish as a second language, plan their classes individually for each student, depending on their level of Spanish experience and areas of interests.
		While studying Spanish at the Minerva Spanish School, students learn about and experience the local customs of Quetzaltenango, the Maya culture, and the Spanish-speaking world in general.
		We encourage students to make optimum use of their stay in Quetzaltenango and we do our best to provide as many opportunities as possible where students continue to learn and practice their Spanish outside the classroom in realistic, real-life situations.
	www.minervaspanishschool.com (251 words)

	Guatemala at Caribbean Topfunwebsites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Except for the south coastal area, and the vast lowlands of the Peten in the north, Guatemala is mountainous, with a hot tropical climate - more temperate in the highlands, and drier in the easternmost departments.
		All of the major cities are situated in the southern half of the country; the major cities are the capital Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango and Escuintla.
		The large lake Lago de Izabal is situated close to the Caribbean coast.
	www.topfunwebsites.com /haiti/guatemala.html (823 words)

	Non-confrontational strategies for social change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the educational sphere, the Centro de la Mujer teaches literacy in regions of Quetzaltenango that were the worst hit by the armed conflict.
		One of the purposes of the organization is to train women leaders who will eventually gain prominent positions from which to support other women and their communities.
		However, in the long run, as the Centro’s activities promote the emergence of a political consciousness within a subjugated group, confrontation is bound to occur, as this group becomes an agent of its own development.
	www-mcnair.berkeley.edu /2001journal/AValverde.html (3100 words)

	John W. Wertheimer \| Popular Culture, Violence, and Religion in Gloria's Story \| Law and History Review, 24.2 \| The ...
		Just recently in Quetzaltenango, Sully Samayoa Elizondo, my solicitous sister-in-law, was kind enough to interview, at my bidding, thirty-five approximate contemporaries of my article's Gloria—women, that is, born in or around the 1940s.
		When one moves beyond full-blown massacres to explore the broader category of "all human rights violations and acts of violence" during the war years, the Department of Quetzaltenango still accounts for less than 2 percent of the national total.
		He wonders, for instance, whether the enhanced tendency of women to sue for "denial of family support," beginning in the mid-1960s, provoked men to unleash a backlash of domestic and sexual violence.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/24.2/wertheimer1.html (3047 words)

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