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CONAP was created by Decree 4-89, or the Law of Protected Areas (in Spanish: Ley de Areas Protegidas, LAP) gave jurisdiction to over the System of Protected Areas of Guatemala (in Spanish: Sistema Guatemalteco de Áreas Protegidas, SIGAP), which is the conglomeration of all protected areas, and those under special protection in the country.
"Proyecto para San Felipe de Lara, Izabal" [Project for San Felipe de Lara, Izabal] (PDF) (in Spanish). Guatemala City: Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 16, 2007; Feldman, Lawrence H. (1998). Motagua Colonial. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA: Boson Books. ISBN 1-886420-51-3. OCLC 82561350.
The Maya Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera Maya) is a nature reserve in Guatemala managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP). The Maya Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 21,602 km 2, one-fifth of the country's total land area.
The area around Tikal has been declared as the Tikal National Park and the preserved area covers 570 square kilometers (220 sq mi). [15] It was created on 26 May 1955 under the auspices of the Instituto de Antropología e Historia and was the first protected area in Guatemala.
IFAP was founded in 1946 to advocate farmers' interests at the international level, and had General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The IFAP is succeeded by the Rome-based World Farmers' Organization (WFO).
A map of Guatemala. Guatemala is mountainous, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén department. The country is located in Central America and bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the east by Belize and by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean.
Naciones Unidas National Park is a forested park area of 4.91 km 2, located 21 km south of Guatemala City, just north of Lake Amatitlán in the municipality of Villa Nueva. [1] It is one of the last remaining nature reserves in the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area .
Consejo Nacional para la Protección de la Antigua (n.d.), Guía del Consejo Nacional para la protección de la Antigua (in Spanish), Guatemala; De Guate (2012). "El Terremoto de Santa Marta". De Guate (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 February 2014; Gobierno de Guatemala (1907). Álbum de Minerva 1907 (in Spanish). Vol.