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  2. History of Guatemala City - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]

  3. Tikal - Wikipedia

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    Tikal (/ t i ˈ k ɑː l /; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, [1] found in a rainforest in Guatemala. [2] It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

  4. Quiriguá - Wikipedia

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    The southern Maya area, showing the locations of Quiriguá and Copán The location of Quiriguá on the Motagua River, with relation to sources of jade. The archaeological site of Quiriguá is named after the nearby village of the same name, [8] and is located a little over 200 km (120 mi) northeast of Guatemala City; [9] it lies in the municipality of Los Amates in the department of Izabal and ...

  5. Kaminaljuyu - Wikipedia

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    Kaminaljuyu (pronounced / k æ m i n æ l ˈ h uː j uː /; from Kʼicheʼʼ, "The Hill of the Dead" [1]) is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in Guatemala City. Primarily occupied from 1500 BC to 1200 AD, [ 2 ] it has been described as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the New World [ 3 ] —although the extant ...

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in an earthquake-prone region, it was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1773 but its principal monuments are still preserved as ruins.

  7. Category:Archaeological sites in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Maya sites in Guatemala (2 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Guatemala" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total.

  8. Qʼumarkaj - Wikipedia

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    The ruins of the city are 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the west of the modern city of Santa Cruz del Quiché. [14] Qʼumarkaj completely occupies 120,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft) of an easily defended plateau surrounded by ravines over 100 metres (330 ft) deep.

  9. Yaxha - Wikipedia

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    Yaxha (or Yaxhá in Spanish orthography) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the northeast of the Petén Basin in modern-day Guatemala.As a ceremonial centre of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Yaxha was the third largest city in the region and experienced its maximum power during the Early Classic period (c. AD 250–600).

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