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A two real coin with the image of General Rafael Carrera, president of Guatemala between 1844 and 1865 and founder of the Republic of Guatemala in 1847. He was the first mestizo ruler of Latin America, and used Mataquescuintla as the center of operations for his military actions; he had the support of the mestizo and indigenous peasants of the region.
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.
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.
The first settler project in the Franja Transversal del Norte (FTN) was in Sebol-Chinajá in Alta Verapaz.Sebol, then regarded as a strategic point and route through Cancuén river, which communicated with Petén through the Usumacinta River on the border with Mexico and the only road that existed was a dirt one built by President Lázaro Chacón in 1928.
Salinas y Aguada Blanca National Reserve is located in the provinces of Caylloma and Arequipa in the region of Arequipa; and a small part in the province of Sanchez Cerro in the region of Moquegua. [1] It spans an area of 366,936 hectares (3,669.36 km 2) [1] which covers the headwaters of important local rivers like Yura and Chili. [4]
The countryside of Paxixil, an aldea (village) of the municipality of San Francisco El Alto.. San Francisco El Alto (Spanish pronunciation: [saɱ fɾanˈsisko el ˈalto]) is a town, with a population of 38,995 (2018 census), [2] and a municipality in the Totonicapán department of Guatemala.
Santa Catalina la Tinta is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.It is located in the hot Polochic River valley. It was originally part of the municipality of Panzós, but was given separate municipal status in 1999.
Playa Grande ("Big beach") is the administrative centre of the municipality of Ixcán in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.. Native Mayan languages spoken in the area include, among many others, Uspantek and Q'eqchi', although Spanish is also common.