Kaqchikel people

Kaqchikel (Cakchiquel)
A Kaqchikel family
Total population
1,068,356[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Guatemala (Sacatepéquez, Sololá)
 Mexico (Chiapas, Campeche)
Languages
Kaqchikel, Spanish
Religion
Catholic, Evangelical, Maya religion
Related ethnic groups
K'iche', Tzutujil

The Kaqchikel (also called Kachiquel[2]) are one of the Indigenous Maya peoples of the midwestern highlands of Guatemala and of southern Mexico. They constitute Guatemala's third largest Maya group.[3] The name was formerly spelled in various other ways, including Cakchiquel, Kakchiquel, Caqchikel, and Cachiquel.

  1. ^ "Resultados Censo 2018" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Guatemala. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. ^ Baily, John (1850). Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders. p. 83.
  3. ^ Carlsen, Robert S. "Kaqchikel." In Davíd Carrasco (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. : Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780195188431