Santiago Sacatepéquez
Santiago Sacatepéquez is a town, with a population of 24,100, and a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. It is well known for a kite festival held here annually on November 1.
History
Santiago Sacatepéquez is located in a valley that the Spanish conquistadores called "de Sacatepéquez" in the 1520s. That valley was bordered by the valley of Xilotepeque on the West, those of Mixco and las Vacas on the North, and by the Chiquimula province and the South and East. The town was described as a rich town with several hundred families and as having "cold climate" by Irish friar Thomas Gage in his 1648 book about his travels through America in the 1620s and 1630s.In the 1540s, bishop Francisco Marroquín split the ecclesiastical administration of the central valley of Guatemala between the Order of Preachers and the Franciscans, assigning Sumpango's curato to the former. In 1638, the Dominicans separated their large doctrines in groups revolving around six convents:
| Convent | Doctrines or curatos | Convent | Doctrines or curatos |
| Guatemala |
| Amatitlán | |
| Guatemala | Verapaz | ||
| Guatemala | Sonsonate | ||
| San Salvador | Sacapulas |
Education
| Level | Male | Female |
| Preschool | 52.2 % | 51.7 % |
| Elementary | 93.1 % | 93.5 % |
| Junior high | 33.9 % | 28.0 % |
| High school | 1.6 % | 1.2 % |
| Urban population | Rural population |
| 25% | 53% |