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Francisco Robles de Leon, Manuela Trinidad Valverde y Alvarez Rodolfo Robles (January 14, 1878 – November 8, 1939) was a Guatemalan physician and philanthropist . In 1915, he was the first to describe onchocerciasis in Latin America, [ 1 ] which was known and widespread on the African continent, with the first description of the adult worms ...
The Indigenous peoples in Guatemala, also known as Native Guatemalans, are the original inhabitants of Guatemala, predating Spanish colonization.Guatemala is home to 6.5 million (43.75%) people of Indigenous heritage belonging to the 22 Mayan peoples (Achi’, Akatec, Awakatec, Chalchitec, Ch’ortí, Chuj, Itzá, Ixil, Jacaltec, Kaq- chikel, K’iche, Mam, Mopan, Poqomam, Poqomchí, Q’anjob ...
Chiquimula de la Sierra ("Chiquimula in the Highlands"), occupying the area of the modern department, was inhabited by Ch'orti' Maya at the time of the conquest. [6] The first Spanish reconnaissance of this region took place in 1524 by an expedition that included Hernando de Chávez, Juan Durán, Bartolomé Becerra and Cristóbal Salvatierra ...
Sierra de las Minas is a mountain range in eastern Guatemala which extends 130 km west of the Lake Izabal. It is 15–30 km wide and bordered by the valleys of the Polochic River in the north and the Motagua River in the south. Its western border is marked by the Salamá River valley which separates it from the Chuacús mountain range. The ...
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.
People in the Sierra de los Chuchumantanes grow potatoes and raise sheep. There is little of the maize cultivation that characterises Mayan communities elsewhere. [5] There are hundreds of miles of stone fences in the Sierra to restrict the sheep. People place small soil islands on the tops of the stone fences to grow plants such as agave. [5]
He has been awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Doctorate Honoris Causa from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and, alongside Anamaría Font, won the 1998 ICTP Prize. [7] He has been a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences since 2010 ...
The Communities of People in Resistance (in Spanish, known as Comunidades de Población en Resistencia, or by the acronym CPRs) were the communities uprooted by the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996) that were isolated in the jungles and mountains of Ixcán, in the department of El Quiché, since the early 1980s and reappeared in the public light in 1991.