Cuyotenango, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala Genealogy

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

History

 * The town was officially founded in 1567.
 * At the conclusion of the Independence of Central America in 1821, Cuyotenango was one of the original municipalities of the State of Guatemala.
 * In 1838 he joined the State of Los Altos, which was approved by the Congress of the Federal Republic of Central America in that same year. In the new state constant peasant revolts and tension with Guatemala were repeated, until hostilities broke out in 1840, when the conservative mestizo general Rafael Carrera recovered the region for Guatemala.
 * Cuyotenango Municipality has a population of approximately 51,000 people

Civil Registration

 * Registros civiles, 1877-1934 – Click on the link to see the records’ availability.
 * 1877-1980 Guatemala, Civil Registration, 1877-1980 at Ancestry - index & images ($)

Parish Records

 * Registros parroquiales, 1766-1942 – Click on the link to see the records’ availability.
 * Registros parroquiales, 1817-1956 – Click on the link to see the records’ availability.
 * Registros parroquiales, 1855-1906 – Click on the link to see the records’ availability.

Census Records

 * Padrones de Guatemala: Santos Reyes de Cuyotenango, 1791 – Click on the link to see the records’ availability.

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio Municipal de Cuyotenango
 * There are six rural communities that have cemeteries

Localities

 * Chacalte Aparicio
 * Chacalte Sis
 * Guachipilin
 * La Máquina
 * Sis