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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.
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.
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.
Sayaxché (Spanish pronunciation: [saʝaʃˈtʃe]) is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión river. It covers an area of 3,904 square kilometres or 1,507 square miles, and had 55,578 inhabitants at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid-2012) was 114,781 inhabitants.
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.
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.