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Fiestas Patronales de San Pedro Masahuat in San Pedro Masahuat
San Pedro Masahuat, in La Paz department, honors San Pedro Apostol, Saint Peter the Apostle, with fiestas patronales from June 21 to 29. The town also holds a separate January celebration for the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas, a devotion to the famous Black Christ image venerated regionally across Central America.
San Pedro Masahuat sits in La Paz department, a municipality whose name pairs the Spanish for Saint Peter with a Nahuat place name, and whose patronal calendar reflects that same layering of Catholic devotion onto older local identity.