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families, only 2 own land in Panajachel, and only 

 one-fifth acre between them. It is also useful to 

 leave out of account two Jorgeno families resident 

 in Panajachel; they own laud and are farmers as 

 are the Panajachelefios, but they enter into local 

 life hardly more than do then- relatives who live 

 in San Jorge. The remaining "Panajachelefios" 

 (as opposed to "foreigners") number 132 families." 



« Including two dual (polygynous) households here counted as one apiece. 



They own about 222 acres, 129 of which are in the 

 delta; the average per household is 1.7 acres for 

 all land, and just under 1 acre for delta land. 



Of the 132 Panajacheleno households, all but 9 

 own land. Of these 9, 2 are not really landless; 

 their inheritance had simply not been turned over 

 to them in 1936, although they worked the land. 

 There were, then, 7 families of the 132 with no 

 land I'esources. The distribution of the land of 



25'7c 



25 



20 



15 



10 







% of 1 

 Land 



1st 

 (20th of 

 familie^ 



1st 



(20th of 

 families) 



7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 

 Twentieths of Population (Families) 



Chart 11. — Distribution of Panajacheleno land. 



18 19 20 



