Sumpango is a town, with a population of 28,488 (2018 census),[2] and a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez.

In the 1540s, bishop Francisco Marroquín split the ecclesiastical administration of the central valley of Guatemala between the Order of Preachers and the Franciscans, assigning Sumpango's curato to the former.

[3] In 1638, the Dominicans separated their large doctrines in groups revolving around six convents: Ecclesiastic historian Domingo Juarros wrote that in 1754, by virtue of a royal order of the enlightened absolutism of king Carlos III all curatos and doctrines of the regular clergy were moved on to the secular clergy.

This contest has been around for several centuries and is now recognized as a Cultural Good of Guatemala.

[6] It was also granted a Cultural Award by then president Óscar Berger Perdomo in the mid 2000s.