[1] The urban center has about 14,000 people, but the municipality also includes four village communities — Los Encuentros, El Tablón, San Jorge la Laguna, and Argueta — as well as 59 smaller rural communities.

[1] Sololá is situated at 2,114 m altitude on a mountainside overlooking Lake Atitlán, some 600 meters below.

It is a highland market center and is the headquarters for the Catholic Bishopric encompassing the Sololá and Chimaltenango Departments.

[1] A large percentage of both men and women continue to wear traditional Mayan clothing.

The climate is a subtropical highland (Köppen: Cwb), very similar to that of the Asian monsoons with months almost without any rain.