Santo Domingo Xenacoj
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Santo Domingo Xenacoj is a town, with a population of 10,632 (2018 census),[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/guatemala/cities/ Citypopulation.de] Population of cities & towns in Guatemala and a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez.
Name origin
The native term Xenacoj has been evolving over the centuries: in 1625, Irish friar Thomas Gage, call it Sinacao;{{sfn|Gage|2014|p=225}} later, friar Francisco Ximenes, O.P. in 1717, calls it Xencoc. In the San Pedro documents is shown as Senacoc and in 1806 was written as Xinacó, in 1880 as Xinacó and, finally, in the early 20th century is written as Xenacoj. The origin of the name comes from the word "Xe" which means under or beneath and Nacoj, which is the name of a hill; therefore, the name Xenacoj means "under the Nacoj hill". Another version claims that instead of Hill, Na means mouth and Coj means lion.
History
Santo Domingo Xenacoj is located in a valley that the Spanish conquistadores called "de Sacatepéquez" (English: Valle of Sacatepéquez) in the 1520s.{{sfn|Juarros|1818|p=301}} That valley was bordered by the valley of Xilotepeque on the West, those of Mixco and las Vacas on the North, and by the Chiquimula province and the South and East.{{sfn|Juarros|1818|p=344}} The town was described as having "warm climate" by Irish friar Thomas Gage in his 1648 book about his travels through America in the 1620s and 1630s.{{sfn|Gage|2014|p=225}}
Historian Domingo Juarros wrote that in 1766 the Chimaltenango and Sacatepéquez municipalities tried to join, but it did not work out and they remained split until after independence from Spain in 1821.{{sfn|Juarros|1818|p=334}}
Climate
Santo Domingo Xenacoj has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen: Cwb).
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|Jan mean C = 15.5
|Feb mean C = 16.2
|Mar mean C = 17.4
|Apr mean C = 18.4
|May mean C = 18.5
|Jun mean C = 18.0
|Jul mean C = 17.8
|Aug mean C = 17.9
|Sep mean C = 17.7
|Oct mean C = 17.0
|Nov mean C = 16.3
|Dec mean C = 15.8
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|Jan high C = 21.5
|Feb high C = 22.5
|Mar high C = 24.1
|Apr high C = 24.6
|May high C = 24.1
|Jun high C = 22.5
|Jul high C = 22.6
|Aug high C = 23.1
|Sep high C = 22.4
|Oct high C = 21.6
|Nov high C = 21.6
|Dec high C = 21.7
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|Jan low C = 9.5
|Feb low C = 9.9
|Mar low C = 10.7
|Apr low C = 12.3
|May low C = 13.0
|Jun low C = 13.6
|Jul low C = 13.1
|Aug low C = 12.8
|Sep low C = 13.0
|Oct low C = 12.4
|Nov low C = 11.1
|Dec low C = 9.9
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|Jan precipitation mm = 5
|Feb precipitation mm = 4
|Mar precipitation mm = 3
|Apr precipitation mm = 37
|May precipitation mm = 115
|Jun precipitation mm = 262
|Jul precipitation mm = 209
|Aug precipitation mm = 202
|Sep precipitation mm = 253
|Oct precipitation mm = 130
|Nov precipitation mm = 32
|Dec precipitation mm = 6
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{{cite web|url=http://en.climate-data.org/location/48062/
|title = Climate: Santo Domingo Xenacoj
|access-date= 19 September 2015
|website= Climate-Data.org}}
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Geographic location
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|Center=Santo Domingo Xenacoj
|North=San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Department municipality
|South=Santiago Sacatepéquez, Sacatepéquez Department municipality{{cite web|author=SEGEPLAN|access-date=29 June 2015|location=Guatemala|website=Secretaría de Planificación y Programación de la Presidencia|url=http://www.segeplan.gob.gt/2.0/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=242:antigua-guatemala&Itemid=333|title=Municipios de Sacatepéquez, Guatemala|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629205959/http://www.segeplan.gob.gt/2.0/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=242:antigua-guatemala&Itemid=333|archive-date=29 June 2015|language=es}}
|East=San Pedro Sacatepéquez and Mixco, Guatemala Department municipalities
|West=Sumpango, Sacatepéquez Department municipality
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References
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=Bibliography=
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- {{cite book|last=Gage|first=Thomas|author-link=Thomas Gage (clergyman)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPlHAwAAQBAJ|year=2014|title=The English-American: A New Survey of the West Indies|orig-date=1648 |editor=A. P. Newton |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134285143 |pages=472}}
- {{cite book|last=Juarros|first=Domingo|title=Compendio de la historia de la Ciudad de Guatemala|location=Guatemala|year=1818|publisher=Ignacio Beteta|url=https://archive.org/stream/compendiodelahis21juar#page/n3/mode/2up|language=es}}
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