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Guatemala City: 1929 Airline, defunct 2009 P D Corporación Multi Inversiones: Conglomerates - Guatemala City: 1920 [2] Food & beverage, retail, real estate, financials P A DHL de Guatemala: Industrials Delivery services Guatemala City: 1991 Cargo airline P A Helicópteros de Guatemala: Consumer services Airlines Guatemala City: 1971 Charter ...
While Guatemala observed five months of daylight saving time in 2006, according to the Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM), nationwide energy consumption was reduced by 36 million kilowatt-hours, equivalent to monetary savings of Q64 million. Guatemala intended to observe daylight saving time the following year, but the plan never came through.
Gasolina (Gasoline) is a 2008 Guatemalan independent film written and directed by Julio Hernández Cordón.The film deals with dehumanization, lack of purpose and recklessness in Guatemalan youthfulness by following the exploits of three teenage boys who go out on a midnight joyride outside their housing project, stealing gasoline from other vehicles along the way.
San Antonio Aguas Calientes (Spanish pronunciation: [san anˈtonjo ˈaɣwas kaˈljentes]) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. [2]The municipal seat is the town of San Andrés Ceballos which is known for its weavers.
El Progreso (Spanish pronunciation: [el pɾoˈɣɾeso]) is a department in Guatemala. The departmental capital is Guastatoya. The Spanish established themselves in the region by 1551, after the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. El Progreso was declared a department in 1908, but was dissolved in 1920 before being reestablished in 1934.
El Palmar is mostly an agricultural municipality, with coffee being one of its main products. Many years ago, El Palmar was nearly destroyed by a volcanic eruption of the Santiaguito volcano. Nuevo El Palmar was founded a few kilometers away where most people re-settled. Some inhabitants chose to stay or go back to the original town.
In Guatemala, some sites display unmistakable Olmec style, such as Chocolá in Suchitepéquez, La Corona in Petén, and Tak'alik A'baj in Retalhuleu, the latter being the only ancient city in the Americas with both Olmec and Mayan features. [7] El Mirador was by far the most populated city in pre-Columbian America.
Sayaxché (Spanish pronunciation: [saʝaʃˈtʃe]) is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión River. It covers an area of 3,904 square kilometres or 1,507 square miles, and had 55,578 inhabitants at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid-2012) was 114,781 inhabitants.