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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.
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.
Map of Antigua Guatemala in 1773. Module:Location map/data/Antigua Guatemala is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Antigua Guatemala. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Santa Maria de Jesus (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta maˈɾi.a ðe xeˈsus]) is a town with a population of 21,795 (2018 census), [3] and a municipality in the department of Sacatepéquez about 10 km from the city of Antigua Guatemala. It is located under the slopes of Volcán de Agua. This town has a height of 2,070 meters above sea level.
The area is mountainous, with what the British described, in 1850, as a "mild climate." [2] Guatemala hosts a chain of active and dormant volcanoes, with those in Sacatepequez including Acatenago, Volcan De Agua (Volcano of Water), and Volcan de Fuego (Volcano of Fire). [5] Jocotes, a fruit of the cashew family, grow in the region. [6]
4.1 Location map, using default map (image) 5 See ... 5.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Antigua Guatemala/doc ...
The Valley of Guatemala is the territory in the country of Guatemala surrounding the historic city of Antigua Guatemala, [1] the old capital of the Kingdom of Guatemala. This territory contained the city of Santiago de los Caballeros , 2 large towns and 73 villages. [ 2 ]