Santiago Atitlán (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo atiˈtlan], from Nahuatl atitlan, "at the water", in Tz'utujil Tz'ikin Jaay, "birdhouse")[2] is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.

[1] Major highways reach Lake Atitlán at San Lucas Toliman and Panajachel.

Santiago Atitlán has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw) with warm days and cool nights.

Santiago Atitlán was the site of considerable state-sponsored violence during the country's civil war.

Some of the most notable incidents that occurred during the war include the assassination of Roman Catholic priest Stanley Rother by right-wing death squads on 28 July 1981,[4] and the massacre of 14 people (and wounding of 21 others) when the Guatemalan Army opened fire on a crowd of unarmed civilians on 2 December 1990.