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Jocotenango (alternate: Xocotenango; translation from Kaqchikel: "place of many plums") is a small municipality in the northeast section of Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez, and is situated north of Antigua Guatemala. It has seven zones, two villages, and one hamlet. According to the 2002 Guatemalan Census, the municipality has a total population of 18,562 or which approximately 1,072 are native population and the balance are non-indigenous; and approximately 16,692 live in an urban area, while the balance are rural dwellers. Jocotenango is the birthplace of Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Ricardo Arjona. ==History== Jocotenango was initially an agricultural field, setup up after the Spanishs conquest by Adelantado, Pedro de Alvarado himself, as it is specified in his will, which reads: "Called the lords and princpals of the town that he had assigned to him, and ask that each one of them give him a certain number of families, and with them he created that settlement; he freed them and donated to them their land; and as the first natives who gathered there were from Utatlán, the town was called Utateca". So was founded the Santiago Utateca settlement. After the destruction of the old kingdom capital on 11 September 1541, the city was moved to Panchoy valley, and the k'achik'eles decided to follow the Spaniards and settled next to Santiago Utateca, founding Jocotonango; eventually both town combined. In the 1540, bishop Francisco Marroquín split the religious administration of the Guatemalan central valley between the Order of Preachers and the franciscans, assigned the formet the Jocotenango curato, among others. After the destruction of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala by the Santa Marta earthquake in 1773, the city moved once again, this time to La Ermita valley. the old neighborhoods follow suit, among them: Jocotenango, Almolonga, San Pedro, San Gaspas and Nuestra Señora de Guatemala. Thus, there was a second Jocotenango settlement next to the new Guatemala City, which was eventually swallowed by the metropolis and is part of the modern Zone 2. The old Jocotenango, previously considered a suburb, received municipality status in the middle of the 19th century.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jocotenango」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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