Chichicastenango Market (Chichicastenango)

Guatemala / Quiche / Chichicastenango
 store / shop, marketplace
Thursdays and Sundays there is a large market where vendors sell handicrafts, food, flowers, pottery, wooden boxes, condiments, medicinal plants, candles, pom and copal (traditional incense), cal (lime for preparing tortillas), grindstones, pigs and chickens, machetes, and other tools. In the central part of the market plaza are comedores (small eateries).

Among the items sold are textiles, particularly the women's blouses. The manufacture of masks, used by dancers in traditional dances has also made this city well-known for woodcarving.

6906 feet above sea level
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichicastenango
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Coordinates:   14°56'33"N   91°6'42"W

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