Mixco


Mixco is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala. It is next to the main Guatemala City municipality and has become part of the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area. Most of Mixco is separated from the City by canyons, for which a multitude of bridges have been created. It is the second largest city in Guatemala after Guatemala City, with a population of 465,773. Ciudad San Cristóbal is located within Mixco.

Administrative division

The municipality is divided into zones with residential neighborhoods, villages, settlements and the municipal capital. Due to its close proximity to Guatemala City, several villages were turned into residential neighborhoods.
SettlementList
Villages
  1. El Campanero
  2. El Naranjito
  3. San José La Comunidad
  4. Sacoj
  5. Lo de Coy
  6. Buena Vista
  7. Lo de Bran
  8. El Aguacate
  9. Lo de Fuentes
  10. El Manzanillo
Residential
neighborhoods
  1. El Milagro
  2. Monte Real
  3. Primero de Julio
  4. Monte Verde
  5. San Francisco
  6. El Castaño
  7. El Caminero
  8. Pablo VI
  9. Carolingia
  10. Belencito
  11. Las Brisas
  12. Molino de Las Flores
  13. La Brigada
  14. Ciudad San Cristóbal
  15. Belén
  16. Lomas de Portugal
  17. Monserrat
  18. Bosques de San Nicolás
  19. Las Minervas
  20. El Tesoro
  21. El Tesoro Banvi
  22. Ciudad Satelite
  23. Santa Marta

From the residential neighborhoods is excluded "La Florida", which separated from Mixco to join Guatemala City in 1958.

Mayors

MayorTime in officeParty
Juan Guillermo Gómez Valdéz15 January 1986 - 15 January 1991Democracia Cristiana
Víctor Manuel Herrera15 January 1991 - 15 January 1996Partido de Avanzada Nacional
Édgar Abraham Rivera15 January 1996 - 15 January 2000Partido de Avanzada Nacional
Édgar Abraham Rivera15 January 2000 - 15 January 2004Frente Republicano Guatemalteco
Amílcar Rivera15 January 2004 - 15 January 2008Partido de Avanzada Nacional
Amílcar Rivera15 January 2008 - 15 January 2012Partido Patriota
Otto Pérez15 January 2012 - 15 January 2016Partido Patriota
Neto Bran15 January 2016 - 15 January 2020Movimiento Reformador

Universities

football club play in the Guatemalan second division. They have been playing their home games at different locations and plan to build the new Estadio de La Tierra de Campeones.

In film

  • In 1969, the Mexican-Guatemalan film El ogro, with famous Mexican comedian Germán Valdéz and Guatemalan actor Herbert Meneses was filmed on location in Tikal and Mixco. The scenes shot in Mixco include Germán Valdéz as an old church keeper and a group of children who listen to his old stories.

    Climate

Mixco has a subtropical highland climate.

Geographic location