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Guatemala's passport requires two fingerprints and a photograph and signature. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Bank on California , a program launched by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in December 2008, encourages financial institutions to accept the Mexican CID, Guatemalan CID and other CID cards as primary identification for opening bank accounts.
Suchitepéquez (Spanish pronunciation: [sutʃiteˈpekes]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. Its capital is Mazatenango. It is situated in the southwestern region of Guatemala, bordering Quetzaltenango, Sololá, and Chimaltenango to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south, Escuintla to the east, and Retalhuleu to the west.
The Northern Railroad of Guatemala was a railway system that ran from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, the main port of Guatemala, between 1896 and 1968.The American United Fruit Company had the monopoly of the railway system through its affiliate, International Railways of Central America (IRCA), along with the docks at Puerto Barrios, the banana plantations in Izabal and the cargo and ...
San Miguel Los Lotes is a former village on the border of the Escuintla Department and Sacatepéquez Department of Guatemala. It was buried by a pyroclastic flow during the 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption on 3 June 2018. [2] [3] The former Village of San Miguel Los Lotes, buried by a pyroclastic flow from Volcán Fuego on June 3, 2018.
Map of the provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala. The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Spanish: Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including present-day Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the ...
The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC, University of San Carlos of Guatemala) is the largest and oldest university of Guatemala; it is also the fourth founded in the Americas. Established in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the Spanish colony, it was the only university in Guatemala until 1954, [ a ] although it continues to hold ...
Tejutla was an important commercial and religious center; in August 1767, Joseph Domingo Hidalgo described Santiago Tejutla as "El Curato" -i.e., the focal center of commerce of all the towns that were around it− in the Gaceta de Guatemala, the official newspaper of the times.
The Asociación Nacional de Muchachas Guías de Guatemala (ANMG; roughly National Girl Guide Association of Guatemala) is the national Guiding organization of Guatemala.It serves 980 members (as of 2003).