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Historically, the area now included in the department of El Progreso was known as Guastatoya or Huastatoya, derived from Nahuatl huäxyötl or huäxin ("calabash") and atoyac ("last"), meaning the last place that calabashes grow, a reference to the change in altitude that occurs in the department, and corresponding climatic change from cold to hot.
Santa Catalina la Tinta is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.It is located in the hot Polochic River valley. It was originally part of the municipality of Panzós, but was given separate municipal status in 1999.
Guatemala and Mexico are neighboring nations who established diplomatic relations in 1848. [1] In January 1959 both nations broke diplomatic relations as a result of the Mexico–Guatemala conflict, however, diplomatic relations were re-established 8 months later in September of that same year.
Santa María Nebaj (Spanish pronunciation:; usually abbreviated to Nebaj) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.Santa María Nebaj is part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul.
Playa Grande ("Big beach") is the administrative centre of the municipality of Ixcán in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.. Native Mayan languages spoken in the area include, among many others, Uspantek and Q'eqchi', although Spanish is also common.
Melchor de Mencos is a municipality in the Petén Department of Guatemala with population 23,813. It is situated on the eastern border with Belize , and is the only major border crossing from Guatemala to Belize.
The countryside of Paxixil, an aldea (village) of the municipality of San Francisco El Alto.. San Francisco El Alto (Spanish pronunciation: [saɱ fɾanˈsisko el ˈalto]) is a town, with a population of 38,995 (2018 census), [2] and a municipality in the Totonicapán department of Guatemala.
El Paquete Semanal ("The Weekly Package") or El Paquete is a one terabyte collection of digital material distributed since around 2008 [1] on the underground market in Cuba as a substitute for broadband Internet. [2]