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History

  • , during his expedition into the lands of the Maya .

  • , serving as Parish Priest, conducts some of the first Ethnographic studies of the highland Maya and collects folk tales and documents making the first translations into European languages.

  • and Río Negro .



Culture

The town of Rabinal boasts a large, colonial-era baroque church. Alongside the church is a small municipal museum, with exhibits on the local culture (particularly native healing techniques) and a section dealing with the massacres of the 1980s. Various pre-Hispanic archaeological sites are also located in the surrounding hills.

The town's annual ''fiesta patronal'' takes place in late January each year and is famous for its dances, including one that recreates a legendary battle between the Achi and the K'iche Maya.


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