Colotenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Colotenango ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * It belonged to the department of Totonicapán / Huehuetenango after independence, and then in 1838 the liberal creoles created the state of Los Altos.
 * In 1865 the Liberals regained power in Guatemala and then with the Liberal Revolution of 1871 they carried out an agrarian reform to benefit their coreligionists, which caused a drastic change in land tenure in Colotenango.
 * In 1935, the municipalities of San Rafael Petzal and San Gaspar Ixchil were integrated as villages to the municipality of Colotenango, although in that municipality they were categorized again as municipalities.
 * The municipality of Colotenango has a population of approximately 26,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1877-1980 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-1980 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
 * 1877-2008 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-2008 at MyHeritage - index & images ($)
 * 1882-1932 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images
 * 1892-2009 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Church Records

 * 1581-1977 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1802-1865 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Census Records

 * There are no records for only the municipality of Colotenango. See the records of neighboring municipalities.