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Izabal (Spanish pronunciation:) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.Its coastal areas form part of the homeland of the Garifuna people.. Izabal is bordered to the north by Belize, to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, and by the Guatemalan departments of Petén to the northwest, Alta Verapaz to the west, and Zacapa to the south.
Lake Izabal (Spanish pronunciation:), also known as the Golfo Dulce, is the largest lake in Guatemala with a surface area of 589.6 km 2 (145,700 acres; 227.6 sq mi) and a maximum depth of 18 m (59 ft). The Polochic River is the largest river that drains into the lake.
Izabal may be: Izabal Department, one of the 22 departments of Guatemala Lake Izabal; Izabal (town) Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Izabal; Izabal JC, football ...
The Castle of San Felipe de Lara (Castillo de San Felipe de Lara) (often referred to simply as the Castillo de San Felipe) is a Spanish colonial fort at the entrance to Lake Izabal in eastern Guatemala. Lake Izabal is connected with the Caribbean Sea via the Dulce River and El Golfete lake. [1]
Railways through the jungle in Izabal Department in 1896. Photographs by La Ilustración Guatemalteca.. On 22 November 1896 the Northern Railroad Zacapa, Zacapa-Puerto Barrios connection, was opened to the public; it was the most important infrastructure project of general José María Reina Barrios given the economic crisis that loomed over Guatemala if he was not able to finish the railroad ...
Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and is the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality. It is Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port, together with its more modern twin port town just to the southwest, Santo Tomás de Castilla. As of the 2018 census, the population of Puerto Barrios was 100,593.
Livingston is a town in Izabal Department, eastern Guatemala, at the mouth of the Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras. The town serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios.
Rank City/Town Population Department 1 Guatemala City: 1,221,739 Guatemala: 2 Villa Nueva: 618,397 Guatemala: 3 Mixco: 465,773 Guatemala: 4 Cobán: 212,047