ALTAVERAPAZ

Typical dress of Cobán

The white güipil represents the beauty, purity, and modesty of women and the
drawings that contain represent nature. The cut represents the sky, the
darkness and the four cardinal points of our worldview. The tupuy,
represents the blood that runs in our veins and the nine
months of a woman's gestation, as well as to snakes.

LOW VERAPAZ
In the department of Baja Verapaz, belonging to the group
Achí linguistic. In this place, on Sundays and holidays, the
community residents wear their festive outfits. The
shirts and men's pants, made with textiles
made on stick looms, they have rows of small brocade motifs.
The belts are ridiculously adorned with zig-zags. The red bags are made of
cotton.

CHIMALTENANGO
Women's clothing: There are several designs for daily use and for
ceremonial use. This clothing consists of the following pieces: güipil,
cut, belt, necklaces, earrings, hair ribbons and sandals. Occasionally
the special one shines the sobre güipil or ceremonial güipil, what is referred to in
its set as ceremonial attire. Likewise, there is a detail that only it
the chains of the brotherhoods or 'texel' shine and what is the paya on the head,
which can be seen in processions and special festivities.

CHIQIMULA
In the department of Chiquimula in the past
men, generally, dressed in
white pants and a shirt with a bib they were going
embroidered in four basic colors, which are:
Red
Green
Yellow
Blue

These colors represent the serpent ceiba which is a

cosmogonic picture. Currently, they lack color and embroidery.

THE PETEN
In the northern area is located Peten. The traditional outfit of the community
it is a white blanket which signifies purity and
approaching the supreme being, and thus, like the relationship to the huipil,
describe in its embroidered pieces, the relationship of our
descendancy with nature, we can see the embroidered stripes
in black and wear the huipiles around the neck.
QUICHE
Quiché is located on the banks of the Río Negro, Sacapulas. This is a
community dedicated to the production of sai. When is it celebrated?
the patronal festival from August 1 to 4, the lady, a member of the brotherhood of
age, wears a ceremonial huipil that is made with three panels
What are fabrics on a stick loom.

Escuintla
This is one of the apartments of the
bocacosta of our country. The traditional costumes in this area, although
almost extinct, they can still be appreciated when they are carried out the
brothers. In Palin, the captains of the brotherhoods wear huipiles, tzutes.
and special headdresses, combined with the daily skirt and belt, for
special occasions.
A long strip of wool unwinds with the hair and then it is tied.
several times over the head. The cofradía huipil is characterized by
the design of the double-headed eagle; it has the same colors as the huipil of
diary.

Huehuetenango
This department, whose history also honors it as San Ildefonso.
Ixtahuacan, this community, like San Rafael Petzal, belonged to
Colotenango. Thus creating a similarity between their traditional outfits.
The women's suit is characterized by its huipiles embroidered in silk with a
wide square neck of geometric designs. Like most of
traditional costumes of our country this is made on three canvases and are
fabrics on stick looms are joined by small multicolored fringes.

IZABAL
This department is the one that leads out to the Atlantic it has.
Guatemala. In this place, the Garifuna predominates, one of the four.
ethnic groups of our country.
Although the department of Izabal does not have a traditional costume.
Mayan traditional. The rich Garifuna culture uses an outfit that they
distinguish, her varied dresses with her cloth on her head makes that
this suit is typical of the region.

Jalapa
The outfit of this place is composed of a cut that the indigenous women
a body-hugging dress, and a blouse that is generally
made by the local ladinas, crafted in industrial fabric, and
adorned with lace and other accessories.
This type of blouse is worn on special occasions, as it is for use
daily wear a simpler blouse.
Jutiapa
Jutiapa, a city called "The Cradle of the Sun". with
many natural attractions, a product of the big
volcanic activity that this area had in
remote times, that's why it is known as the
more volcanic of the departments of
Guatemala.
Its cultural wealth is the result of miscegenation. There was
where the Xinca culture flourished, currently almost extinct. The formation of
the department of Jutiapa has experienced many changes throughout its history, which
which has also contributed to cultural diversity.

Quetzaltenango
In this municipality, women wear huipiles made of the
traditional colors that are red, violet, and yellow, just like
It uses many designs of birds, stars, and vases.
They are generally made with three canvases woven on a loom.
they are joined by a ruffle, that is to say a seam of union,
similar to that of the cut or in the shape of flower branches. While
on the neck of the huipil, it has embroidery with flowers, birds, and
diverse animals.

RETALHULEU
Retalhuleu, called the 'Capital of the World', is a department washed
by a large number of rivers, with its beaches being one of its main
attractions.
This department is located in the Southwestern region of
Guatemala, limited to the north by Quetzaltenango, to the south by the Ocean
Pacific, to the east by Suchitepéquez and to the west by San Marcos and
Quetzaltenango is located 190 kilometers from the Capital City.
from Guatemala.

SACATEPEQUEZ
In the Department of Sacatepequez, the municipality that stands out the most for its traditional costume.
it is from San Antonio Aguas Calientes, and this community is famous for its quality
of their fabrics. The huipiles of elaborate design are easily identifiable, since the pattern
It can be seen both from the front and the back of the fabric.
SAN MARCOS
In this department, women are identified by their delicate skirts.
Previously, they were made of silk. Nowadays, they are woven in rayon, but still
they maintain their traditional yellow color and the mottled lines. The huipil, the sash,
the napkins and serviettes combine yellow and purple in designs
finely brocaded

SANTA ROSA
The department of Santa Rosa located on the southern side
from the map of Guatemala. It is one of the municipalities that
no longer has a traditional costume due to the few and far between
people who still use it but it's rare to see them on the streets.
SOLOLA
Sololá is one of the few municipalities where there still is
you can observe both women and men with their
traditional clothing. And the trend is that the
men no longer wear traditional attire, but Sololá is the
exception.
Also known as "Elderberry Water", people wear their daily outfit.
Both the man's shirt and the woman's huipil have the same design with
the added sleeves.

Suchitepequez
Women's garments consist of a headpiece for daily use, hair.
rolled with a narrow upholstery ribbon from Totonicapán, which gives
turn around on itself at the back of the head. Sometimes more
important uses the same ribbon style, but with silk drawings
decorated with silk tassels; central part in cotton upholstery
red crossed by stripes of cotton and yellow and green silk; covering
16 inches from the end, on each side; dividing sections in silk of
color.

TOTONICAPAN
In this municipality, silk ribbons are used by women in their hair. These
are woven on small looms in the tapestry technique that allows you to appreciate the
designs of both sides of the fabric.
The huipil has a silk embroidery that gives it a highlight.
special, being used only for occasions
ceremonial. The threads created for these costumes are
known as mottled threads of the warp and just like
that the fabric was dyed using an ancestral technique
called ikat or also known as tie-dye.

ZACAPA

The traditional dress of the Ch'ort'es is characteristic and is

distinct from others in the country. The department.

Zacapa belongs to this class from others.
tribes that inhabited these regions.

White dress with ruffles on the chest and with blue, yellow, red trim.
Red ribbon at the waist.

GUATEMALA

Guatemala, a country of great archaeological and colonial wealth,

cultural and natural, with its clothing being the most prominent aspect, since
their traditional costumes are made mainly of wool, silk, rayon, and
some synthetic fibers, in which the use of colors stands out.
One of the reasons that adds the most color to culture
Guatemalan are the traditional costumes used in different
regions, especially in the western part of the country, since these
are true works of art, which for many can
go unnoticed, by being so absorbed in their daily activities that they do not pay attention
attention to the people who radiate color on the roads, the patron festivals, the
parks, the towns and the markets.

THE PROGRESS
LANGUAGE With the strong Spanish colonization that took root in
this region, the department of El Progreso became
quickly in the commercial route between the Caribbean and Spain,
so the Spanish language was definitively established and the
ancient inhabitants were transculturated and the languages of
those disappearance, and among some dialects
PRODUCTION The economy of El Progreso is based on the
agricultural production of coffee, sugar cane, tobacco, corn, bean
cocoa, annatto, tomato, vanilla, lemon tea, cotton and fruits
varied.