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Departments of Guatemala; Flag Coat of Arms Department Map # ISO 3166-2:GT [6] Capital Area (km 2) Population (2018 Census) [7] Municipalities Location Alta Verapaz: 1 GT-16 Cobán: 8,686 1,215,038 17 Baja Verapaz: 2 GT-15 Salamá: 3,124 299,476 8 Chimaltenango: 3 GT-04 Chimaltenango: 1,979 615,776 16 Chiquimula: 4 GT-20 Chiquimula: 2,376 ...
Ciudad de Guatemala: 220 995 363 4 524.37 5 Fraijanes: 96 63 721 667.38 6 Mixco: 132 517 505 3 920.49 7 Palencia: 196 74 839 381.83 8 San José del Golfo: 84 8 456 100.67 9 San José Pinula: 220 89 636 407.45 10 San Juan Sacatepéquez: 293 284 798 972 11 San Miguel Petapa: 20 150 513 5 017.1 12 San Pedro Ayampuc: 73 67 946 930.77 13 San Pedro ...
Guatemala Department is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital is Guatemala City, which also serves as the national capital. The department consists of Guatemala City, its suburbs and other municipalities. The department covers a surface area of 2,126 square kilometres (821 sq mi), and had a population of 3,015,081 at the 2018 ...
The Guatemala City metropolitan area (Área Metropolitana de Guatemala or AMG) is a conglomeration of densely populated municipalities surrounding Guatemala City. In 2005, the metropolitan area was defined by the governments of Guatemala and Guatemala City as comprising the municipalities of Amatitlán , Chinautla , Guatemala City, Mixco , San ...
The Ministry of the Interior (Spanish: Ministerio de Gobernación or MINGOB) is a government ministry of Guatemala, headquartered in Zone 1 of Guatemala City. [1]
The Provincial Council of the Province of Guatemala within the Captaincy General of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire. After being annexed by the First Mexican Empire in 1821, the Federal Republic of Central America was founded in 1823, which included the present day San Marcos region of Guatemala.
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.
Livingston is a town in Izabal Department, eastern Guatemala, at the mouth of the Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras. The town serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios.