San Pedro Carchá
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Municipal palace, San Pedro Carchá, 1980
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| Nickname(s): Carchá | |||
 San Pedro Carchá
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| Coordinates: 15°28′38″N 90°18′38″W / 15.47722°N 90.31056°W | |||
| Country |
 Guatemala
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| Department |
 Alta Verapaz
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| Municipality | San Pedro Carchá | ||
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| • Type | Municipal | ||
| • Mayor | Víctor Hugo Cifuentes (UNE) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Municipality | 1,082 km2 (418 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 1,282 m (4,206 ft) | ||
| Highest elevation | 2,100 m (6,900 ft) | ||
| Lowest elevation | 600 m (2,000 ft) | ||
| Population (Census 2002) | |||
| • Municipality | 148,344 | ||
| • Urban | 11,941 | ||
| • Ethnicities | Q'eqchi', Poqomchi', Ladino | ||
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya | ||
| Climate | Cfb | ||
| Website | municipal site | ||
San Pedro Carchá, usually referred to as Carchá, is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is situated at 1282 m above sea level. It has an estimated population 245,000 people. It covers a terrain of 1082 km².
Deportivo Carchá football club play their home games in the Estadio Juan Ramon Ponce Guay. They have played in Guatemala's top division from 1998-2001.
The Northern Transversal Strip was officially created during the government of General Carlos Arana Osorio in 1970, by Legislative Decree 60-70, for agricultural development. The decree literally said: "It is of public interest and national emergency, the establishment of Agrarian Development Zones in the area included within the municipalities: San Ana Huista, San Antonio Huista, Nentón, Jacaltenango, San Mateo Ixtatán, and Santa Cruz Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz and the entire department of Izabal."
San Pedro Carchá has a warm and temperate climate (Köppen: Cfb).
San Pedro Carchá is completely surrounded by Alta Verapaz department municipalities:
Coordinates: 15°28′N 90°18′W / 15.467°N 90.300°W
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