Sololá

Sololá, town, southwestern Guatemala. It lies in the central highlands at 6,932 feet (2,113 metres) above sea level. Sololá overlooks spectacular Lake Atitlán, a few miles to the south. Cakchiquel Maya make up the majority of the town’s population. Sololá is known for its Friday markets, for which hundreds of Indians come in from surrounding villages to trade or to worship at the 16th-century church, which was rebuilt after the 1902 earthquake. Coffee, fruit, grains, onions, and garlic are the principal products of the area; there is flour milling in the vicinity. Sololá lies 5 miles (8 km) north of the Inter-American Highway and 75 miles (120 km) from Guatemala City. Pop. (2002) 30,155.