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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.
"Las Trece Rosas" (the Thirteen Roses) is the name given in Spain to a group of thirteen young women who were executed by a Francoist firing squad on 5 August 1939, just after the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War.
Railroads have been built in Guatemala since 1884. In 1912, the network was acquired by United Fruit Company , named IRCA and developed to connect Guatemala City with the Pacific coast ( Puerto San José ), Atlantic coast ( Puerto Barrios ), El Salvador ( Anguiatú ), Mexico ( Ciudad Tecún Umán - change of gauges (restored [ 3 ] ) 1,435 mm or ...
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 ...
Guatemala, [a] officially the Republic of Guatemala, [b] 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.
María Josefa García Granados y Zavala (10 July 1796 - 28 September 1848) was a Guatemalan intellectual, writer, journalist and poet of Spanish origin, and one of the greatest intellectual exponents of the independence of Guatemala, which was achieved in 1821.
Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Adtranz–CAF EMU built by CAF and Adtranz. Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, lit. ' Construction and Other Railway Services ') is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its Solaris Bus & Coach subsidiary.
A two real coin with the image of General Rafael Carrera, president of Guatemala between 1844 and 1865 and founder of the Republic of Guatemala in 1847. He was the first mestizo ruler of Latin America, and used Mataquescuintla as the center of operations for his military actions; he had the support of the mestizo and indigenous peasants of the region.