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Outrigger canoe team at Tumon. Guam's most popular sport is American football, followed by basketball and baseball respectively. Soccer and other sports are also somewhat popular. [24] Guam hosted the Pacific Games in 1975 and 1999. At the 2007 Games, Guam finished 7th of 22 countries and 14th at the 2011 Games. [citation needed]
Tumon (Chamorro: Tomhom) is a district located on Tumon Bay along the northwest coast of the United States unincorporated territory of Guam. Located in the municipality of Tamuning , it is the center of Guam's tourist industry.
Costa Rican dinner from Puerto Limón (an area with Jamaican descendants). Jamaican food— jerk chicken served with rice and peas, in Guam. Jamaican cuisine is available throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and other places with a sizeable Jamaican population or descendants, [87] [88] such as coastal Central America [7] [8] [11] and ...
Tamuning, also known as Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon (Chamorro: Tamuneng), is a village located on the western shore of the United States territory of Guam. The village of Tamuning is the economic center of Guam, containing tourist center Tumon, Harmon Industrial Park, and other commercial districts. Its central location along Marine Corps Drive, the ...
Viewing platforms overlook Tumon Bay and the Philippine Sea. Two Lovers Point is Guam's most famous landmark. While the land is owned by the Government of Guam, the first term administration of Governor Carl Gutierrez (1995-1999) initiated a public-private partnership to develop the site with Calvo Enterprises, a company owned by former governor Paul McDonald Calvo.
Guam's Point Udall is the westernmost point of the U.S., as measured from the geographic center of the United States. [35] [36] The Mariana chain, of which Guam is a part, was created by collision of the Pacific and Philippine Sea tectonic plates. Guam is located on the micro Mariana Plate between the two.
Many villages have rich histories reaching back thousands of years. Artifacts from ancient Chamorro settlements can be found in every village of Guam. When the Spanish Empire colonized the Marianas Islands as part of its Pacific possessions in the 16th and 17th centuries, the island was divided into separate districts with each district consisting of a parish with a village center governed by ...
The Indigenous people of Guam are known as the Chamorro people, and are the largest ethnic group in Guam. This group is categorised as a minority group in the United States territory. [3] The 2021 mean age in the territory of Guam was 31.4 years. [1] Guam is the largest and most populated of the territories in the Mariana Islands. [2]