San Pedro Soloma

San Pedro Soloma (also known as Tzu'luma in Qʼanjobʼal) is a town and municipality of Huehuetenango, a department of Guatemala.

The municipality covers a total area of 264 km2 with elevations ranging from 1,900 m to 3,500 m. Its population of 49,030 is spread over the town of Soloma, 19 villages and 50 smaller rural communities (caserios).

[3] The annual celebrations in honor of the town's patron Saint Peter take place from June 24 to 30.

[5] During the first part of the 17th century they also had doctrine in four town close to the city of Santiago, which eventually became city neighborhoods: Espíritu Santo, Santiago, San Jerónimo and San Anton —which was the capital of the Mercedarians, where they had their convent and where their comendador lived.

[8] However, in 1754, due to the borbon reforms implemented by the Spanish kings, the Mercedarins -and the rest of the regular clergy for that matter-, had to transfer their doctrines to the secular clergy, thus losing their Chiantla convent and annexed doctrines.


Mercedarian coat of arms.