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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 ...
The team competes at Estadio Mario Camposeco which has a capacity of 13,500 and is the most successful non-capital team in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala. [ 9 ] Due to the city's high altitude many athletes have prepared themselves here such as Olympic silver medalist Erick Barrondo and the 2004 Cuban volleyball team.
The Colegio was reopened in 1783 as Seminario-Colegio de San Carlos until the colegio was split from the seminary in 1924. The Colegio de San Carlos became university on July 1, 1948. USC has 5 campuses with combined land area of 88 hectares or 217 acres (Talamban campus has 78 hectares). [1]
The Ujuxte Archaeological Project was begun, by E. M. Shook and the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, in order to amplify data on the Early and Middle Preclassic periods along the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala and to investigate the key questions of regional prehistory following the collapse of La Blanca. The research at Ujuxte is ...
The cathedral moved to the new capital on 22 November 1779, but all the interior ornaments that had not been destroyed by the earthquake in the old building remained behind in what was now called Antigua Guatemala; in 1783 they were taken away from the frail ruins and stored in the old Universidad de San Carlos Borromeo building and in the El ...
Francisco de Paula García y Peláez (April 2, 1785 – January 25, 1867 [1]) was a Guatemalan historian [2] and economist [3] who served as Archbishop of Guatemala from 1845 until his death. As a historian, García Peláez was commissioned to write histories of colonial Central America.
Guatemala: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Fuentes y Guzmán, Francisco Antonio de (1932) [1690]. Recordación Florida. Discurso historial y demostración natural, material, militar y política del Reyno de Guatemala. Biblioteca Goathemala de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia Volumen VI (in Spanish ...
Arqueología del extremo oriente de Guatemala y su relación fronteriza con Honduras y El Salvador (in Spanish). Estudios 37, pp. 2–15. (August 1999). Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Antropológicas y Arqueológicas IIHAA. ISSN 0254-7724. OCLC 923443080. Retrieved 2019-01-04.