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Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and is the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality. It is Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port, together with its more modern twin port town just to the southwest, Santo Tomás de Castilla. As of the 2018 census, the population of Puerto Barrios was 100,593. Puerto Barrios ...
Railways through the jungle in Izabal Department in 1896. Photographs by La Ilustración Guatemalteca.. On 22 November 1896 the Northern Railroad Zacapa, Zacapa-Puerto Barrios connection, was opened to the public; it was the most important infrastructure project of general José María Reina Barrios given the economic crisis that loomed over Guatemala if he was not able to finish the railroad ...
The small town of Izabal is on the south shore of the lake; before the construction of the ports of Livingston and Puerto Barrios in the 19th century this was Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port and was the original seat of Izabal department; nowadays, however, Izabal town is a remote village that gets little traffic.
The Estadio Municipal "Roy Fearon" is a football stadium located in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. It is home to third division club Izabal JC (Los Tiburones). Its capacity is 8,000. The venue bears its name in honour of local track and field athlete Roy Alfonso Fearon. [1]
A map of Guatemala showing its 22 departments. ... Izabal: 11 GT-18 Puerto Barrios: 9,038 408,688 5 Jalapa: 12 GT-21 Jalapa: 2,063 342,923 7 Jutiapa: 13 GT-22 Jutiapa:
Santo Tomás de Castilla, officially known as Mátías de Gálvez though it popularly retains its former name, [1] is a port city in the Izabal Department, Guatemala. It lies at Amatique Bay off the Gulf of Honduras and is administratively a part of Puerto Barrios .
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.
In the 1920s and 30s Puerto Barrios was a seaplane destination only; a first concrete runway was built by the United States Government during World War II for strategic reasons. [3] It was later used by the Guatemalan Air Force, known under the name "Base Aérea de Izabal".