Mataquescuintla is a municipality in the Jalapa department of south-east Guatemala. It covers 287 square kilometres , 14.3% of Jalapa Department.Mataquescuintla played a significant role during the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was the center of operations of conservative general Rafael Carrera, who led a Catholic peasant revolution against the liberal government of Mariano Gálvez in 1838, and then ruled Guatemala from 1840 until his death in 1865.
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