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The 1c value from the first postage stamp of Guatemala, issued 1871 An 1898 telegraph stamp of Guatemala, produced by overprinting an earlier postage stamp. Guatemala has been independent from Spain since 1847. The first adhesive stamps of Guatemala were revenue stamps issued in 1868. [1] [2] The first postage stamps were produced in 1871. [3]
The first adhesive revenue stamps of Guatemala were issued in 1868 [1] and preceded the first postage stamps of that country by three years. [2] Purposes
Portrait of Mariano Rivera Paz.Rivera Paz was governor of the State of Guatemala when he created Amatitlán as an independent district in 1839. After the independence of Central America, and during governor Mariano Rivera Paz's time in office, a decree issue on 6 November 1839, created a new independent district called Amatitlán which also included Palín and Villa Nueva. [8]
The Programa Pueblos Pintorescos ("Picturesque Towns Program") is an initiative led by Guatemala's Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo, known as INGUAT. [1] The program seeks to promote sustainable tourism development in a network of towns and cities that have been identified for their historical, cultural, and natural attributes.
In 1773, the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was destroyed by the 1773 Guatemala earthquake ("Santa Marta earthquakes"); but as the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes -or "Oratorio de la Merced", as it was known in the 19th century- was not it suffered major damage because it was practically new, it was still open for ...
Portrait of Mariano Rivera Paz.Rivera Paz was governor of the State of Guatemala when he created Amatitlán as an independent district in 1839. After the independence of Central America, and during governor Mariano Rivera Paz time in office, a decree issue on 6 November 1839, created a new independent district called Amatitlán which also included Palín and Villa Nueva. [8]
The image in its glass case. The Cristo Negro of Esquipulas is the earliest and most famous images of its kind, [4] and is the most venerated image in Central America. [7] It originated in this town, 222 km from the capital of Guatemala in 1595, when it was commissioned and made by Quirio Cataño.
Then, in the last quarter of the 18th century, bishop Dr. Pedro Cortés y Larraz, who arrived from Cuilco in 1770 as part of the inspection he was doing of the Guatemalan dioceses, called Tejutla "Santiago en la Cima del Monte" (English: Santiago at the top of the hill" and reported that there were "sixty four families who lived very well" in ...