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Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala) is known colloquially by Guatemalans as La Capital or Guate. Its formal name is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción [ 8 ] (New Guatemala of the Assumption). The latter name is derived from the fact that it was a new Guatemala after the old one ( La Antigua ) was ruined by an earthquake.
Blog de Guatemala de Ayer (in Spanish). IDESAC (1976). "Terremoto. Diagnóstico preliminar". Instituto para el Desarrollo Económico y Social de América Central (in Spanish). IDESAC: 22– 25. Melchor Toledo, Johann Estuardo (2011). "El arte religioso de la Antigua Guatemala, 1773–1821; crónica de la emigración de sus imágenes" (PDF).
In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]
The Estadio Nacional Doroteo Guamuch Flores is a multi-use national stadium in Guatemala City, the largest venue in Guatemala.It was built in 1948, to host the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1950, [1] and was renamed after long-distance runner Doroteo Guamuch Flores, winner of the 1952 Boston Marathon.
Guatemala's municipalities in their departments. ... Ciudad de Guatemala: 220 995 363 4 524.37 5 Fraijanes: 96 63 721 667.38 6 Mixco: 132 517 505 3 920.49 7 Palencia:
The Programa Pueblos Pintorescos ("Picturesque Towns Program") is an initiative led by Guatemala's Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo, known as INGUAT. [1] The program seeks to promote sustainable tourism development in a network of towns and cities that have been identified for their historical, cultural, and natural attributes.
The Guatemala City metropolitan area (Área Metropolitana de Guatemala or AMG) is a conglomeration of densely populated municipalities surrounding Guatemala City. In 2005, the metropolitan area was defined by the governments of Guatemala and Guatemala City as comprising the municipalities of Amatitlán , Chinautla , Guatemala City, Mixco , San ...
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 ...