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The Municipality of Guatemala City created the Municipal Water Company (Empresa Municipal de Agua) (EMPAGUA) in 1972 to manage Guatemala City’s sewage and water services. Today it is the largest municipal water provider in the country. [13] XELAGUA manages the water supplies in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala’s second largest city. [8]
In Guatemala City, untreated storm water is injected into the upper aquifer to try to recharge the city's water supply. Leaching from the landfill in Guatemala City has also severely contaminated the local aquifers, and generally only deep confined aquifers should be considered safe from biological and chemical contamination. [2]
Tecpán Guatemala: 201 112 864 561.51 7 Patzún: 124 71 790 578.95 8 Pochuta: 170 11 239 428.66 9 Patzicía: 44 40 848 928.36 10 Santa Cruz Balanyá: 40 10 981 274.53 11 Acatenango: 172 28 780 167.33 12 San Pedro Yepocapa: 217 42 996 198.14 13 San Andrés Itzapa: 83 35 579 428.66 14 Parramos: 16 20 632 1289.5 15 Zaragoza: 56 29 668 529.79 16 El ...
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.
Guatemala's economy is dominated by the private sector, which generates about 85% of GDP. [citation needed] Most of its manufacturing is light assembly and food processing, geared to the domestic, U.S., and Central American markets. In 1990 the labor force participation rate for women was 42%, later increasing by 1% in 2000 to 43% and 51% in 2010.
Agua del Pueblo (AdP) is a private, non-profit, non-denominational and Guatemalan organization. AdP has completed more than 500 integrated rural water, sanitation, and community development projects serving more than 1,000 communities and their 500,000 Guatemalan residents.
The final few kilometres of the river form part of the Guatemala–Honduras border. [4] The river mouth opens at El Quetzalito Beach, which is located along the Guatemalan coast, and flows into the Gulf of Honduras. [5] The Motagua River valley also marks the Motagua Fault, the tectonic boundary between the North American and the Caribbean ...
Climate change in Guatemala is a serious issue as Guatemala is considered one of 10 nations most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. [1] In 2010, Guatemala "ranked second in the world on the Global Climate Risk Index, which indicates the level of exposure and vulnerability to extreme events."