Raxruhá

Raxruhá is a town and municipality in the north of the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.

The Northern Transversal Strip was officially created during the government of General Carlos Arana Osorio in 1970, by Legislative Decree 60-70, for agricultural development.

Raxruhá's main tourist attraction are the Candelaria Caves, which consist of a large system of natural cave formations at the transition between low land and mountainside between Chisec and Raxruhá municipalities.

The caves are famous not only for their natural beauty but for the significance they had for the Mayan culture.

Rahruhá is immersed in between Chisec and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, which both Alta Verapaz Department municipalities.