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The Municipality of Guatemala City created the Municipal Water Company (Empresa Municipal de Agua) (EMPAGUA) in 1972 to manage Guatemala City’s sewage and water services. Today it is the largest municipal water provider in the country. [13] XELAGUA manages the water supplies in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city. [8]
Member countries include Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Bolivia, with additional support from Canada and Mexico. [ 19 ] The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) , in collaboration with local partners, is developing a water fund to finance responsible watershed management in Guatemala's Sierra de las Minas Biosphere .
The final few kilometres of the river form part of the Guatemala–Honduras border. [4] The river mouth opens at El Quetzalito Beach, which is located along the Guatemalan coast, and flows into the Gulf of Honduras. [5] The Motagua River valley also marks the Motagua Fault, the tectonic boundary between the North American and the Caribbean ...
Name Area (km 2) Max. depth (m) Coordinates Altitude (m) Department Municipality Laguna de Ayarza: 14 230 1409 Santa Rosa: Casillas: Laguna de Calderas
Guatemala's economy is dominated by the private sector, which generates about 85% of GDP. [citation needed] Most of its manufacturing is light assembly and food processing, geared to the domestic, U.S., and Central American markets. In 1990 the labor force participation rate for women was 42%, later increasing by 1% in 2000 to 43% and 51% in 2010.
Agua del Pueblo (AdP) is a private, non-profit, non-denominational and Guatemalan organization. AdP has completed more than 500 integrated rural water, sanitation, and community development projects serving more than 1,000 communities and their 500,000 Guatemalan residents.
San Juan Sacatepéquez (Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ ˈxwan sakateˈpekes]) is a city, with a population of 155,965 (2018 census) [2] making it the eighth largest in Guatemala, and a municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala, northwest of Guatemala City. The city is known for flower-growing and wooden furniture.
Volcán de Agua (also known as Junajpú by Maya) is an extinct stratovolcano located in the departments of Sacatepéquez and Escuintla in Guatemala. At 3,760 m (12,340 ft) , Agua Volcano towers more than 3,500 m (11,500 ft) above the Pacific coastal plain to the south and 2,000 m (6,600 ft) above the Guatemalan Highlands to the north.