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The Petromax design has been often copied, today such as by Tower in China, Lea Hin in Indonesia or Prabhat in India. The current company Petromax GmbH was founded in 2010 by the German entrepreneur Jonas Taureck. [2] Through a number of detours, the Petromax trademark for both Europe and North America came in the hands of this company. It not ...
Freight transport was the main business of Ferrovías Guatemala. Guatemala rail map of 1925. Construction of the first railway in Guatemala commenced in 1878 [1] and the first section began operation in 1880, connecting Puerto San José and Escuintla, [1] [2] being extended to Guatemala City in 1884.
What remains of the Antigua Central La Plata sugar refinery on PR-125 in Guatemala. Guatemala was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
In 2010, Pacific Rubiales and Ecopetrol Rubiales jointly owned the Piriri fields, which covered 72,839 acres (294.77 km 2) of land 148 km from Puerto Gaitan. Oil was first discovered there in 1982 but production didn't begin until 1988 when the Rubiales risk participation contract was signed.
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.
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 ...
Masagua (Spanish pronunciation:) is a town, with a population of 16,797 (2018 census), [3] and a municipality in the Escuintla department of Guatemala. In 2008 began construction for a massive power generation plant se property of Jaguar Energy in the municipality. [4]
Puerto San José is a town on Guatemala's Pacific Ocean coast, in the department of Escuintla. It has a population of 23,887 (2018 census), [1] making it the largest town along the Pacific coast of Guatemala. It was the Pacific port for Guatemala, but this was superseded in the 20th century by Puerto Quetzal, four kilometres to the east of the ...