Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rank City/Town Population Department 1 Guatemala City: 1,221,739 Guatemala: 2 Villa Nueva: 618,397 Guatemala: 3 Mixco: 465,773 Guatemala: 4 Cobán: 212,047
Guatemala City is the capital and largest city of Guatemala and the most populous urban area in Central America. Retired general Otto Pérez Molina was elected president in 2011 along with Roxana Baldetti, the first woman ever elected vice-president in Guatemala; they began their term in office on 14 January 2012. [142]
The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin , located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.
MUNAE, Guatemala City. The history of Naranjo includes several major disturbances in the dynastic rule when allegiances and identities of local kings were subject to change. Texts at the site record a mythical founding of the city by its patron god. [3]
1779 – City becomes capital of Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Guatemala. 1789 – Plaza Mayor fountain erected. [3] 1793 – Consulado (merchant guild) established. [4] 1813 – Cathedral of Guatemala City inaugurated. [3] 1823 – City becomes part of the United Provinces of Central America. 1831 – Sociedad Economica museum ...
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cities_in_Guatemala&oldid=16098092"
In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]
San Miguel Petapa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsam miˈɣel peˈtapa]) also known as Petapa is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala, located south of Guatemala City. The city has a population of 129,124 according to the 2018 census. [3]