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Here are some places to look for information about Lake Atitlan and it´s people.

www.discosatitlan.com  Santiago´s own cooperative music label.

www.atitlan.com  Nice commercial site from Panajachel with some nice grafics and good commercial information.

www.atitlan.net Lots of great photos of the lake and it's people.

www.festivalatitlan.com This is the place to get information about our yearly music festival ( March)

www.nimpot.com  Excellent site on weaving. They have an encyclopedia started of the history of the different native clothing from around the country.

www.cojolya.org  A commercial weavers cooperative based here... very fine weaving, and they recently opened a weaving museum here in Santiago Atitlan

www.sigloxxi.com  Mainstream newspaper from Guatemala city. They have an English edition.

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Carmack, Robert M. The Quiche Mayas of Utatlan. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 1 98 1.

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Coe, Michael D. Breaking the Maya Code. London. Thames and Hudson. 1332.

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Coe, Sophie D. & M. D. The True History of Chocolate. New York. Thames and Hudson. 1996.

Dayley,Juan Felipe. Diccionario Tzutujil. Antigua, Guatemala P.L.F.M. 1996.

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal The True History  of the Conquest of Mexico, written in 1568 by Captain Bernal Diaz de Castillo. Translated by  Maurice Keatinge. New York: R.M. McBride Co

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