Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Ixil are a Maya people indigenous to Guatemala. The Ixil live in three municipalities in the Cuchumatanes mountains in the northern part of the department El Quiché. These municipalities also known as the Ixil Triangle are Santa Maria Nebaj San Gaspar Chajul and San Juan Cotzal.In the early eighties the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation involving systematic rape forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war.
