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Huehuetenango

First-level unit, Guatemala: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 22 first-level units
Page GRX-GTM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GTM / GTStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,415,619
people (GHSL 2025)
7,435 km²
area
7.7%
of Guatemala
33
units inside

01Map

Inside Huehuetenango

The 33 ADM2 units of Huehuetenango.

FIG 1 · 33 units inside Huehuetenango
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

1,415,619

7.7% of Guatemala.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,633,969

+15% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

7,435 km²

190 people per km².

કોડ

GT-HU

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Huehuetenango in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2024-12-31

1,480,901

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2015-12-31

47.3%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

168%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

33 units inside Huehuetenango

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aguacatán – 69,643 20,546 248.78 280 4.9% 0
Barillas – 180,446 80,204 892.24 202 12.6% 0
Chiantla – 150,093 84,116 545.62 275 10.5% 0
Colotenango – 16,776 45,042 63.38 265 1.2% 0
Concepción Huista – 13,562 22,049 117.65 115 0.9% 0
Cuilco – 56,288 80,237 443.98 127 3.9% 0
Huehuetenango – 115,960 167,723 190.11 610 8.1% 0
Ixtahuacán – 50,375 109,774 241.18 209 3.5% 0
Jacaltenango – 33,434 41,476 163.88 204 2.3% 0
La Democracia – 69,810 108,284 242.15 288 4.9% 0
La Libertad – 29,898 32,239 96.11 311 2.1% 0
Malacatancito – 9,983 141,511 413.78 24 0.7% 0
Nentón – 71,098 57,223 765.31 93 5% 0
Petatán – 10,066 11,020 16.71 602 0.7% 0
San Antonio Huista – 13,376 29,866 107.25 125 0.9% 0
San Gaspar Ixchil – 6,872 14,838 27.97 246 0.5% 0
San Juan Atitán – 9,113 31,370 76.68 119 0.6% 0
San Juan Ixcoy – 27,940 30,743 186.26 150 2% 0
San Mateo Ixtatán – 56,845 39,569 549.32 103 4% 0
San Miguel Acatán – 41,946 22,665 129.84 323 2.9% 0
San Pedro Necta – 24,984 29,506 76.18 328 1.7% 0
San Rafael La Independencia – 8,394 14,451 51.28 164 0.6% 0
San Rafael Petzal – 10,497 29,689 36.16 290 0.7% 0
San Sebastián Coatán – 15,986 18,986 171.44 93 1.1% 0
San Sebastián Huehuetenango – 28,102 30,577 128.23 219 2% 0
Santa Ana Huista – 12,293 35,201 178.29 69 0.9% 0
Santa Bárbara – 19,277 96,116 150.43 128 1.3% 0
Santa Eulalia – 56,820 44,888 361.96 157 4% 0
Santiago Chimaltenango – 19,570 22,205 47.76 410 1.4% 0
Soloma – 105,545 62,281 127.52 828 7.4% 0
Tectitán – 12,112 38,480 204.51 59 0.8% 0
Todos Santos Cuchumatán – 61,022 51,219 290.35 210 4.3% 0
Unión Cantinil – 22,731 11,533 44.61 510 1.6% 0
05સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Huehuetenango publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Guatemala.
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07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GTM ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GTM ADM2, source: Coordinadora Nacional Para La Reducción De Desastres, OCHA FISS, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2021
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
દેશો
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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Avis en français

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