Jacaltenango

After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in the 1520s, the "Presentación de Guatemala" Mercedarian province was formed in 1565; originally, the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy had gotten from bishop Francisco Marroquín several doctrines in the Sacatepéquez and Chimaltenango valleys, close to the capital Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala, but they traded those with friars of the Order of Preachers in exchange for the doctrines those had in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes area.{{sfn|Juarros|1818|p=336}} During the first part of the 17th century they also had doctrine in four towns close to the city of Santiago, which eventually became city neighborhoods: Espíritu Santo, Santiago, San Jerónimo and San Anton —which was the capital of the Mercedarians, where they had their convent and where their comendador lived.{{sfn|Juarros|1818|p=336}}

According to bishop Juan de las Cabezas' memoir in 1613{{sfn|Pérez|1966|p=44}} and the bishop Pedro Cortés y Larraz parish visit minutes from 1770,{{sfn|Cortés y Larraz|1770|p=}} the Mercedarians came to have nine doctrines, and numerous annexes, which were: Santa Ana de Malacatán, Concepción de Huehuetenango, San Pedro de Solomá, Nuestra Señora de la Purificación de Jacaltenango, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Chiantla, San Andrés de Cuilco, Santiago de Tejutla, San Pedro de Sacatepéquez, and San Juan de Ostuncalco.{{sfn|Pérez|1966|p=44-45}}

However, in 1754, due to the borbon reforms implemented by the Spanish kings, the Mercedarins - and the rest of the regular clergy for that matter - had to transfer their doctrines to the secular clergy, thus losing their Jacaltaenango convent and annexed doctrines.{{sfn|Juarros|1818|p=338}}

Much of its population lives abroad, mainly in Indiantown, Jupiter, West Palm Beach, and Lake Worth Florida, where there is a large community of Guatemalan Mayas. Some of those who migrated to Jupiter in Palm Beach County seasonally live in Morganton in the mountains of North Carolina.{{Cite web|last=Hitchcock|first=Olivia|title=Jupiter's deep connection to one Guatemalan town|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/jupiter-deep-connection-one-guatemalan-town/hOtZyowBQGbSypAEsXW7pL/|access-date=2021-05-03|website=The Palm Beach Post|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhzjt|title=A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida's New Destinations|date=2009|publisher=Rutgers University Press|jstor=j.ctt5hhzjt |isbn=978-0-8135-4492-2}}

Jacaltenango has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).

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|location = Jacaltenango

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|Jan mean C = 17.9

|Feb mean C = 18.3

|Mar mean C = 19.5

|Apr mean C = 20.9

|May mean C = 20.3

|Jun mean C = 20.4

|Jul mean C = 19.6

|Aug mean C = 19.9

|Sep mean C = 19.7

|Oct mean C = 19.1

|Nov mean C = 18.7

|Dec mean C = 18.1

|year mean C =

|Jan high C = 25.1

|Feb high C = 25.8

|Mar high C = 27.3

|Apr high C = 28.5

|May high C = 27.4

|Jun high C = 26.4

|Jul high C = 25.6

|Aug high C = 26.2

|Sep high C = 25.6

|Oct high C = 24.9

|Nov high C = 25.1

|Dec high C = 24.8

|year high C =

|Jan low C = 10.7

|Feb low C = 10.8

|Mar low C = 11.7

|Apr low C = 13.3

|May low C = 13.3

|Jun low C = 14.5

|Jul low C = 13.6

|Aug low C = 13.7

|Sep low C = 13.9

|Oct low C = 13.4

|Nov low C = 12.3

|Dec low C = 11.4

|year low C =

|Jan precipitation mm = 48

|Feb precipitation mm = 18

|Mar precipitation mm = 21

|Apr precipitation mm = 65

|May precipitation mm = 145

|Jun precipitation mm = 563

|Jul precipitation mm = 431

|Aug precipitation mm = 357

|Sep precipitation mm = 523

|Oct precipitation mm = 363

|Nov precipitation mm = 104

|Dec precipitation mm = 63

|year precipitation mm =

|source 1 = Climate-Data.org

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Jacaltenango is surrounded by Huehuetenango Department municipalities:

{{Geographic location

|Center=Jacaltenango

|North=Nentón

|East=San Miguel Acatán

|Southeast=Concepción Huista

|South=Unión Cantinil{{cite web|url=http://www.segeplan.gob.gt/2.0/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=9:huehuetenango&Itemid=333 |author=SEGEPLAN |title=Municipios del departamento de Huehuetenango |location=Guatemala |access-date=9 October 2015 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707085552/http://www.segeplan.gob.gt/2.0/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=9%3Ahuehuetenango&Itemid=333 |archive-date= 7 July 2015 }}

|Southwest=San Antonio Huista

|West=Santa Ana Huista

}}

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• {{cite book|last=Cortés y Larraz|first=Pedro|author-link=Pedro Cortés y Larraz|title=Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala|year=1770|location=Guatemala|publisher=Diócesis de Guatemala|language=es}}
• {{cite book|last=Juarros|first=Domingo|title=Compendio de la historia de la Ciudad de Guatemala|year=1818|publisher=Ignacio Beteta|location=Guatemala|url=https://archive.org/stream/compendiodelahis21juar#page/n3/mode/2up|language=es}}
• {{cite book|last=Pérez|first=Pedro Nolasco O. de M.|title=Historia de las Misiones Mercedarias en América|location=Madrid|year=1966|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ijSAAAAMAAJ|language=es}}

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