Guatemala, Quiche Department, Municipality of Chajul, Ilom

Xakb´al and Vi´Kanoja

Hydroelectric power plant on the sacred river of Xakb´al and Vi´Kanoja, one of the sacred mountains of the Ixil Maya community of Ilom representing four cardinal points, associated to Day Ee and the guardian of the North. Ilom is one of the Indigenous Communities that suffered dissastrous repressions in the 80. during the Guatemalan Civil War, including a massacre where 85 persons were executed by the military and all of the remaining population displaced. After the War, numerous hydroelectric projects had been installed in the Ixil Region, affecting the Sacred Landscape of the Ixil Maya People.

October 2016

Monika Banach

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