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San Mateo Ixtatán is a municipality in the department of Huehuetenango in the northwestern region of the Republic of Guatemala, located 2,540 meters above sea level in the Cuchumatanes mountain range and covers 560 square kilometers of land. Its climate is cold and it is located in a cloud forest. The temperature fluctuates between 0.5 and 20°C. The coldest months are from November to January and the hottest months are April and May. The city has a population of around sixteen thousand inhabitants, and is the municipal center of more than thirty thousand people who live in the surrounding mountain villages. It has a weekly market on Thursdays and Sundays.

The annual city festival takes place from September 17 until September 21 in honor of its patron San Mateo. The residents of San Mateo belong to the Mayan Chuj ethnic group and speak the Mayan Chuj language, which should not be confused with Chuj baths, or wood-fired steam rooms that are common throughout the central and western highlands.

In 1529, after the conquest of Guatemala by the Spanish, Tlaxcaltecan and Cholulan forces of Pedro de Alvarado, the original Chuj settlement was given to the conquistador Gonzalo de Ovalle, along with Santa Eulalia and Jacaltenango, and then, in 1549, it was transferred to It was a doctrine of the Dominican missionaries, however, the Chuj population of San Mateo Ixtatán resisted Spanish rule for longer than their highland neighbors, thanks to their alliance with the Lacandones in the northern lowlands., a council led by Enrique Enríquez de Guzmán, the then governor of Guatemala, decided to execute the reduction of San Mateo Ixtatán and Santa Eulalia, both within the jurisdiction of colonial administration of the Huehuetenango corregimiento. After the Independence of Central America in 1821, the Constitution of the State of Guatemala promulgated in 1825 created the districts for the administration of justice. San Mateo Ixtatán was part of district Nº9, specifically in the Jacaltenango circuit, and from April 3,1838, San Mateo Ixtatán was part of the region that formed the ephemeral State of Los Altos, until it was recovered by the general Rafael Carrera in 1840. San Mateo Ixtatán had to renounce a part of his territory to create the municipality of Nentón in 1876 and fought to maintain his communal lands before the expropriations undertaken by the Liberal Reformation.

Its border with Mexico was established in 1896, after the Herrera-Mariscal Treaty signed by President Justo Rufino Barrios in 1882 with the government of Mexico, and through which the Guatemalan government definitively renounced its claims on the territory of Soconusco and Guatemala. It lost about 10,300 km, fourteen towns, nineteen villages and fifty-four ranches, while Mexico lost only one town and twenty-eight ranches, the agreement for Guatemala was as nefarious as the report of the director of the Boundary Commission, the engineer Claudio Urrutia, was confiscated by the government of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera when it was made public in 1900, and then by the government of Julio César Méndez Montenegro when it was reprinted in 1968. In 1970 it was assigned to the Northern Transversal Strip, and when In the mid-1970s, oil was discovered in the area, fighting between the Guatemalan Army and the rebel forces of the Guerrilla Army of the Poor during the Civil War of Guatemala intensified.

Moreover, in 1977 there was a conflict between the municipality of San Mateo Ixtatán and the settlers, due to the establishment of the Cuchumaderas company, which was closely related to the interests of the military leadership that held political power in that decade. On January 17,2017, a clandestine group of armed men attacked a group of community residents who protested peacefully in front of the facilities of the Ixquisis hydroelectric plant. After the incident the protesters dispersed, but reported that infiltrators attacked the guardians of the hydroelectric machinery and that one person was killed by gunshot wounds. On November 8,2018, representatives of several communities of San Mateo Ixtatán, local authorities and the government signed the Agreement for Peace and Development that seeks to stop the violent acts that have affected that municipality for several years, caused by groups Opponents to the implementation of hydroelectric projects in the municipality.

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