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Antigua Guatemala (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtiɣwa ɣwateˈmala]), commonly known as Antigua or La Antigua, is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala. The city was the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala from 1543 through 1773, with much of its Baroque -influenced architecture and layout dating from that period.
A quarter-century (26 years) later in 1847, Guatemala declared itself an independent republic, separate from the larger former Federal Republic of Central America), with Guatemala City proclaimed as its continued national capital city. [6] Guatemala City was almost completely destroyed a century later by a second massive damaging series of ...
Antigua and Barbuda (UK: / æ n ˈ t iː ɡ ə ... b ɑːr ˈ b uː d ə /, US: / æ n ˈ t iː ɡ w ə ... b ɑːr ˈ b j uː d ə /) is a sovereign archipelagic country in the Caribbean.It lies at the conjuncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles.
After the Kaqchikel rebelled against their former allies, the Spanish refounded the capital as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala in 1527, in the Almolonga Valley near the Volcán de Agua. In 1541 the crater of the volcano collapsed, unleashing a flood upon the new capital, which was once again moved. The Almolonga Valley site is now known ...
Guatemala is heavily centralized: transportation, communications, business, politics, and the most relevant urban activity takes place in the capital of Guatemala City, [citation needed] whose urban area has a population of almost 3 million. [193] The estimated median age in Guatemala is 20 years old, 19.4 for males and 20.7 years for females ...
UTC-6. Sacatepéquez (Spanish pronunciation: [sakateˈpekes]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The name comes from Sacatepéquez, a city from November 21, 1542, until July 29, 1773, when it was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemalan Earthquake (Santa Marta Earthquake). Sacatepéquez means grasshill in the Nahuatl language.
A map of Guatemala. Guatemala is mountainous, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén department. The country is located in Central America and bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the east by Belize and by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean.
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