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San Marcos de Arica, Chilean football club; San Marcos High School (Santa Barbara, California), U.S. San Marcos, a fictional Central American banana republic in the 1971 motion picture Bananas, in an episode of The A-Team, and in a 2014 episode of Archer; San Marcos, León, former monastery in León
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Marcos is a Spanish and Portuguese masculine given name of Latin origin derived from the name Marcus. Markos is the Greek equivalent, while Marco is the Italian equivalent. Marcos or Markos may refer to:
Mam is a Mayan language spoken by about half a million Mam people in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, and the Mexican states of Campeche and Chiapas.
Esquipulas Palo Gordo (Spanish pronunciation: [eskiˈpulas ˈpalo ˈɣoɾðo]) is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. The town was founded on 24 December 1826 year. In the 1920s it was merged with San Marcos, but in 1948 it recovered its autonomy again. [3]
The Central American United Provinces constitution from 11 October 1821, showed Tejutla under modern San Marcos jurisdiction for the very first time. In 1870 Tejutla reached "Villa" category and, due to its development, its authorities requested to the House of Representatives of Guatemala to be named a Department capital.
Ixchiguán is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. The economy is based on temporary work force on the coffee plantations, respectively on a male migrating work force in Mexico. Mam , which is one of the Mayan languages of Guatemala, is spoken in Ixchiguán and in the neighborhood of the city.
The original Spanish name was San Marcos Island [1] (Isla or Ysla San Marcos), [2] honoring Saint Mark the Evangelist.In 1892, as part of Ecuador's celebration of the quadricentennial of Columbus's first voyage, it was renamed Salvador or San Salvador Island (Isla San Salvador) after the first island Columbus reached.