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TOTONICAPAM, or TOTONICAPAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOTONICAPAM, or TOTONICAPAN , the See also:capital of the See also:department of Totonicapam, See also:Guatemala, on the same high See also:plateau as See also:Quezaltenango, the nearest railway station, from which it is 12 M. E.N.E. Pop. (1905) about 28,000. Totonicapam is inhabited mainly by See also:Quiche See also:Indians, employed in the making of See also:cloth, See also:furniture, pottery and wooden musical See also:instruments. There are hot See also:mineral springs in the neighbourhood. In 1838 Totonicapam was declared an See also:independent See also:republic, in which the adjoining departments of See also:Solola and Quezaltenango were included. This See also:state existed for two years, and was then again merged in the republic of Guatemala. Totonicapam suffered greatly in the See also:earthquake of the 18th of See also:April 1902.

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