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El Estor is a town and a municipality in the Izabal department of Guatemala. As of the 2018 census, the town's population was 20,489. [ 3 ] The population of El Estor consists largely of Qʼeqchiʼ speaking indigenous people .
The Northern Railroad of Guatemala was a railway system that ran from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, the main port of Guatemala, between 1896 and 1968.The American United Fruit Company had the monopoly of the railway system through its affiliate, International Railways of Central America (IRCA), along with the docks at Puerto Barrios, the banana plantations in Izabal and the cargo and ...
The Relief Map of Guatemala (in Spanish: Mapa en Relieve de Guatemala) is a huge relief map of Guatemala erected at ground level on two scales: 1: 10,000 for the horizontal extension and 1: 2,000 for the vertical, [1] on an approximate surface of 1,800 square meters.
Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG")– a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala" (for example, by the BBC [12] and CNN [13]), or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters [14]) – was a Guatemalan political party; encuentro may also translate as "gathering", "meeting", or "union".
Historically, the area now included in the department of El Progreso was known as Guastatoya or Huastatoya, derived from Nahuatl huäxyötl or huäxin ("calabash") and atoyac ("last"), meaning the last place that calabashes grow, a reference to the change in altitude that occurs in the department, and corresponding climatic change from cold to hot.
The case drew immediate comparisons to an incident in November in Laos in which six tourists — including one American and two Australian teenagers — died after drinking tainted alcohol at a ...
V.J. Edgecombe scored 19 points to lead No. 25 Baylor to an 81-56 rout of Big 12 Conference newcomer Utah on Tuesday in Waco, Texas. Norchad Omier contributed 15 points, 14 rebounds, three blocks ...
The Ministry of the Interior (Spanish: Ministerio de Gobernación or MINGOB) is a government ministry of Guatemala, headquartered in Zone 1 of Guatemala City. [ 1 ] Agencies