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Lake Atitlán (Spanish: Lago de Atitlán, ) is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre mountain range. The lake is located in the Sololá Department of southwestern Guatemala. It is known as the deepest lake in Central America.
Volcán Atitlán (Spanish pronunciation:) is a large, conical, active stratovolcano adjacent to the caldera of Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas range. It is within the Sololá Department , in southwestern Guatemala .
San Pedro La Laguna (Spanish pronunciation: [sam ˈpeðɾo la laˈɣuna]) is a Guatemalan town on the southwest shore of Lake Atitlán.For centuries, San Pedro La Laguna has been inhabited by the Tz'utujil people, and in recent years it has also become a tourist destination for its Spanish language schools, nightlife, and proximity to the lake and volcanoes, particularly Volcán San Pedro, at ...
Tolimán is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the southern shores of Lake Atitlán.Part of the Sierra Madre mountain range, the volcano has an elevation of 3,158 m (10,361 ft) and was formed near the southern margin of the Pleistocene Atitlán III caldera.
Santiago Atitlán is the home of the Cojolya Weaving Center and Museum, founded by the Cojolya Association of Maya Women Weavers. The museum shows the history, tradition, and process of backstrap-loom weaving, the evolution of the traditional costume of the Tzutujil, and tells about the indigenous people of Santiago Atitlán.
A 29-year-old woman from Monterey Park who went missing last month during a yoga retreat in Guatemala probably drowned while kayaking, according to Guatemalan authorities.
She consulted more than 200 sources for the history. From Merriweather Post to Trump: New book by UCF professor details history of Mar-a-Lago Skip to main content
Many of the names of the municipalities and towns of Guatemala consist of two parts: the name of the Catholic saint venerated on the day they were founded and a description with Nahuatl roots; this is because the troops that invaded the region in the 1520s under the command of Pedro de Alvarado were made up of Spanish soldiers and Tlaxcalan and Cholultec indigenous people.