| Raxruhá | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Guatemala#Guatemala Alta Verapaz |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guatemala##Location in Alta Verapaz |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alta Verapaz |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Raxruhá |
| Government Type: | Municipal |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Guillermo Reyes Volvito |
| Leader Party: | UCN |
| Area Land Km2: | 571 |
| Population As Of: | 2018 census |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 36832 |
| Population Density Km2: | 65 |
| Population Urban: | 6038 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank1: | Q'eqchi', Ladino |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Population Blank2: | Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya |
| Coordinates: | 15.8666°N -90.0424°W |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Climate |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Af |
Raxruhá is a town and municipality in the north of the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. The municipality, which was formerly a part of Chisec, was founded in 2008.[2] [3] At the 2018 census, the municipality population was 36,832.
See main article: Franja Transversal del Norte.
The Northern Transversal Strip was officially created during the government of General Carlos Arana Osorio in 1970, by Legislative Decree 60-70, for agricultural development.[4] The decree literally said: "It is of public interest and national emergency, the establishment of Agrarian Development Zones in the area included within the municipalities: San Ana Huista, San Antonio Huista, Nentón, Jacaltenango, San Mateo Ixtatán, and Santa Cruz Barillas in Huehuetenango; Chajul and San Miguel Uspantán in Quiché; Cobán, Chisec -whom Raxruhá belonged at the time-, San Pedro Carchá, Lanquín, Senahú, Cahabón and Chahal, in Alta Verapaz and the entire department of Izabal."
The municipality of Raxruhá was formed in 2008, from territory that once belonged to Chisec municipality.
See also: La Aurora International Airport.
Raxruhá's main tourist attraction are the Candelaria Caves, which consist of a large system of natural cave formations at the transition between low land and mountainside between Chisec and Raxruhá municipalities. The caves are famous not only for their natural beauty but for the significance they had for the Mayan culture.[5]
Candelaria caves
Raxruhá has tropical climate (Köppen: Af).
Rahruhá is immersed in between Chisec and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, which both Alta Verapaz Department municipalities.