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Chajul
Quiché, Guatemala · North America
About Chajul
Chajul sits on the route: 10 minutes from San Juan Cotzal.
Chajul is in Quiché, Guatemala, with about 12,000 people. The nearest town is San Juan Cotzal, about 6 km away.
Chajul (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaˈxul]; full name San Gaspar Chajul) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Chajul is part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and Santa María Nebaj. The Ixil region is isolated by beautiful mountains and has maintained its rich Ixil MayaRead more
traditions and language. Chajul, Nebaj, and Cotzal make up the Ixil Region in the Department of Quiché in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Having been at the heart of the 36-year civil war, Chajul experiences post-war challenges such as emotional trauma, land displacement, and fragmented families. Additionally, unemployment is high, large families live in one-room adobe houses with open cooking fires, opportunities for women are scarce, and family- and gender-based violence are common. The community has a corn-based agricultural economy in which adults struggle daily to feed their families and the average income is $1–3 per day. A 2002 study revealed that less than 1% of children graduate from high school (5% from middle school) as they are forced to leave school at a young age to help support the family household, leaving 75% of the adult population illiterate. Chajul further suffers from common preventable health concerns, such as respiratory illness, intestinal disease, tuberculosis, malnutrition, and death during childbirth. Eighty percent of the Chajul population lives in poverty.
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Chajul is in Quiché, Guatemala, about 6 km from San Juan Cotzal.
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- Population
- 11,657
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Guatemala
- Region
- Quiché
- Timezone
- America/Guatemala
- Coordinates
- 15.4852, -91.0352
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