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Sololá

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

Page GRX-GTM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GTM / GTStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
518,743
people (GHSL 2025)
1,056 km²
area
2.8%
of Guatemala
20
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Sololá

The 20 ADM2 units of Sololá.

FIG 1 · 20 units inside Sololá
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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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

518,743

2.8% of Guatemala.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

428,842

-17% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

1,056 km²

491 people per km².

Code

GT-SO

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Sololá 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

494,590

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

Poverty headcount · 2015-12-31

25.8%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

123%

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

04Units

20 units inside Sololá

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 Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Concepción – 13,261 15,188 15.06 881 2.1% 0
Lago De Atitlan – 63,114 47,086 127.61 495 10.2% 0
Nahualá – 92,430 107,977 187.3 493 15% 0
Panajachel – 3,457 3,960 7.81 443 0.6% 0
San Andrés Semetabaj – 19,928 16,630 52.94 376 3.2% 0
San Antonio Palopó – 12,241 9,762 26.43 463 2% 0
San José Chacayá – 13,261 12,674 16 829 2.1% 0
San Juan La Laguna – 7,363 11,582 37.44 197 1.2% 0
San Lucas Tolimán – 43,809 40,208 74.12 591 7.1% 0
San Marcos La Laguna – 4,896 3,732 9.23 530 0.8% 0
San Pablo La Laguna – 15,895 12,116 6.22 2,555 2.6% 0
San Pedro La Laguna – 21,363 19,222 50.67 422 3.5% 0
Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán – 41,923 55,563 190.66 220 6.8% 0
Santa Catarina Palopó – 3,192 2,664 4.8 665 0.5% 0
Santa Clara La Laguna – 7,522 5,734 14.18 530 1.2% 0
Santa Cruz La Laguna – 4,313 3,002 11.16 386 0.7% 0
Santa Lucía Utatlán – 23,873 12,674 51.05 468 3.9% 0
Santa María Visitación – 14,520 10,577 20.74 700 2.3% 0
Santiago Atitlán – 41,691 24,241 116.28 359 6.7% 0
Sololá – 169,832 88,042 151.53 1,121 27.5% 0
05Exposure

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
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Ojantshi
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Ubungozi

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

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.
Amazwe
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.