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5 February – President Bernardo Arévalo announces an agreement allowing for Guatemala to host migrants deported from the United States. [1] 10 February – 2025 Guatemala City bus crash. A bus falls off of a bridge over the Las Vacas River in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing at least 54 people, and seriously injuring 9 others. [2] [3]
San Juan La Laguna: 38 13 400 350.97 8 San Lucas Tolimán: 116 31 805 274.18 9 San Marcos La Laguna: 12 2 944 245.33 10 San Pablo La Laguna: 12 8 004 667 11 San Pedro La Laguna: 24 11 828 492.83 12 Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán: 218 61 274 281.07 13 Santa Catarina Palopó: 8 4 882 610.25 14 Santa Clara La Laguna: 12 10 390 865.83 15 Santa Cruz La ...
While there is a positive GDP growth of 4.5 percent in that same fiscal year in Guatemala, [1] it has done little to reduce poverty. With economic growth bearing no absolute causality on poverty reduction, there is a need for the social determinants of poverty to be looked into.
Guatemalan Institute of Social Security Building. The Guatemalan Institute of Social Security (abbreviated as IGSS in Spanish) is the branch of the Guatemalan Ministry of Work and Social Provision that provides Hospital and Clinical services; pensions and income protection benefits, and employment counseling for salaried employees in Guatemala.
Villa Canales is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala, situated 22 km south of the capital Guatemala City. As of the 2018 census, the city had a population of 124,680, [ 2 ] making it the eleventh largest city in Guatemala.
The Bank of Guatemala (Spanish: Banco de Guatemala) is the central bank of Guatemala. It was established in 1945. Its headquarters is one of the most recognized Brutalist themed architectural structures. Designed by architects José Montes Córdova and Raúl Minondo, the iconic bank stands within the heart of the city's civic center.
Historically, the area now included in the department of El Progreso was known as Guastatoya or Huastatoya, derived from Nahuatl huäxyötl or huäxin ("calabash") and atoyac ("last"), meaning the last place that calabashes grow, a reference to the change in altitude that occurs in the department, and corresponding climatic change from cold to hot.
Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala) is known colloquially by Guatemalans as La Capital or Guate. Its formal name is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción [8] (New Guatemala of the Assumption). The latter name is derived from the fact that it was a new Guatemala after the old one (La Antigua) was ruined by an earthquake