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Guatemala City: Guatemala Department: CASA Museo Iinternacional de Movimientos Artísticos (Casa M.I.M.A.) [2] Guatemala City: Guatemala Department: 19th century life Centro de Visitantes y Museo de Sitio de Iximche [2] Tecpán Guatemala: Chimaltenango Department: Maya civilization: Centro de Visitantes y Museo de Sitio de K'umarcaaj [3] Santa ...
The Numismatic Museum of Guatemala (Spanish: Museo Numismático de Guatemala) is a museum in Guatemala City. The museum is dedicated to the history of banknotes and ...
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.
Rank City/Town Population Department 1 Guatemala City: 1,221,739 Guatemala: 2 Villa Nueva: 618,397 Guatemala: 3 Mixco: 465,773 Guatemala: 4 Cobán: 212,047
Coatepeque (Spanish pronunciation: [koateˈpeke]), also known as Village of gardenias, is a town and municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala. According to the 2018 census, the town of Coatepeque had a population of 37,330. [2] Coatepeque sits near the Suchiate River and is a transportation center on the Pacific Coast Highway. [3]
Casa Cakchiquel built in 1948, was one of the first hotels on the lake and according to legend, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Ingrid Bergman, and other intellectuals, artists, painters and writers enjoyed the house at its best. Today the house serves as the Cultural Center and is lovingly restored and one of two historic buildings "patrimonio ...
Dolores is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala. It contains 26,269 people. The municipality includes the Maya archaeological sites of Ixkun, Ixtutz, Ixtonton and El Chal. The town is home to the Museo Regional del Sureste de Petén. It’s has an area of 3050km.
San Francisco el Grande became a significant religious and cultural center for the whole region. Theology, law, philosophy, physics and mathematics were taught at San Buenaventura College, located in today's monastery ruins. The college also favoured painters of the colonial era such as Cristóbal de Villalpando, Thomas de Merlo and Alonzo de ...