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The Bank of Guatemala (Spanish: Banco de Guatemala) is the central bank of Guatemala. It was established in 1945. It is one of the most recognized Brutalist themed architectural structures. Designed by architects José Montes Córdova and Raúl Minondo, the iconic bank stands within the heart of the city's civic center.
Día del Trabajo: Also called International Workers' Day: June 30 Army Day: Día del Ejército: August 15 Assumption Day: Día de la Asunción: Assumption of Mary into Heaven (only in Guatemala City) September 15 Independence Day: Día de la Independencia: Celebrates the Act of Independence of Central America in 1821. October 20 Revolution Day ...
Guatemala's large expatriate community in the United States, has made it the top remittance recipient in Central America. These inflows are a primary source of foreign income, equivalent to nearly two-thirds of exports. Guatemala's gross domestic product for 1990 was estimated at $19.1 billion, with real growth slowing to approximately 3.3% ...
The central banks of Honduras and Guatemala are eying digital currencies, officials said on Wednesday, following El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as legal currency. The central bank presidents ...
Banco del Café (English: Bank of the Coffee), commonly known as Bancafé, was a bank in Guatemala that collapsed because of bad loans and panicked withdrawals set off by an investigation by Guatemala's Superintendencia de Bancos in 2006. This eventually brought the bank down.
The first banknotes were issued by the Central Bank of Guatemala in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 100 quetzales, with 1 ⁄ 2 quetzal notes added in 1933. In 1946, the Bank of Guatemala took over the issuance of paper money , with the first issues being overprints on notes of the Central Bank.
Central Bank of Cuba: 24.00 CUP = 1.00 USD Sint Maarten: Netherlands Antillean guilder [1] ANG: Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 1.79 ANG = 1.00 USD Curaçao Dominican Republic: Dominican peso: DOP: Banco Central de la República Dominicana: float Guadeloupe: Euro: EUR: European Central Bank: float Martinique Saint Barthélemy Saint ...
Ecuador uses the United States dollar [7] (the French overseas department French Guiana uses the euro, the currency of France). The Brazilian real is considered a strong South American currency; under presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff , the real almost tripled in value, resulting in a vast change in economics, with many ...