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History. Façade of the former El Carmen church in 2009. Antigua Guatemala means "Old Guatemala" and was the third capital of Guatemala, formerly called "Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala". The first capital of Guatemala was founded on the site of a Kaqchikel -Maya city, named Iximche, on Monday, July 25, 1524—the day of Saint James ...
General Miguel García Granados. María García Granados y Saborío (1860 – May 10, 1878), also known as La Niña de Guatemala ("The Girl of Guatemala"), was a Guatemalan socialite, daughter of General Miguel García Granados, who was President of Guatemala from 1871 to 1873 and whose house served as a gathering for the top artists and ...
Website. ufm.edu. Francisco Marroquín University ( Spanish: Universidad Francisco Marroquín ), also known by the abbreviation UFM, is a private, secular university in Guatemala City, Guatemala. It describes its mission as "to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal, and overall economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons."
12 June 1975. (1975-06-12) (aged 90) Rafael Arévalo Martínez (25 July 1884, Guatemala City –12 June 1975, Guatemala City) was a Guatemalan writer. He was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, diplomat, and director of Guatemala’s national library for more than 20 years. Though Arévalo Martínez’s fame has waned, he is still considered ...
Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga (12 April 1916 – 27 November 2001) was a Guatemalan engineer and diplomat. She was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman in all of Central America to earn an engineering degree, the first woman to be accepted and to attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and the first female ambassador ...
Guatemala City ( Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala ), known nationally also as Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala. [ 4] It is also a municipality capital of the Guatemala Department and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nestled in a mountain valley called ...
Magdalena Spínola. Magdalena Spínola (1896–1991) was a Guatemalan teacher, poet and journalist. Orphaned at a young age, she found encouragement from her childhood neighbor Miguel Ángel Asturias for her literary dreams. After graduating from the country's Teacher's College, she taught school at a private academy and began to publish poems.
Antigua Guatemala: 78 59 091 757.57 5 Magdalena Milpas Altas: 19 12 766 671.89 6 Pastores: 19 19 661 1 034.79 7 San Antonio Aguas Calientes: 17 12 716 748 8