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Agua Blanca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈaɣwa ˈβlaŋka]) is a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala.. Like most eastern regions of Guatemala near Jutiapa ('el oriente') most locals in Agua Blanca embrace- as Americans refer to it- a typical cowboy, 'old western' culture.
Agua Blanca: 340 17 765 52.25 2 Asunción Mita: 506 53 141 105.02 3 Atescatempa: 68 20 033 294.6 4 Comapa: 132 37 218 281.95 5 Conguaco: 128 29 887 233.49 6 El Adelanto: 31 8 394 270.77 7 El Progreso: 68 25 689 257.56 8 Jalpatagua: 204 31 601 154.91 9 Jerez: 60 6 903 115.05 10 Jutiapa: 620 167 049 269.43 11 Moyuta: 380 50 742 133.43 12 Pasaco ...
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The capital is the city of Jutiapa. As of 2018, it has a population of 488,395. [1] The department is divided into seventeen municipalities. Jutiapa is the country's southeasternmost department and officially the only department with no Mayan descendants native to the region. The main crops are sorghum, tobacco, onion and corn. The climate is ...
Jutiapa is a city and a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala. Located 124 km from the city of Guatemala City, at an altitude of 892 m (2,926 ft), [3] it is the capital of the department of Jutiapa. Its Catedral San Cristóbal is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Francisco de Asís de Jutiapa since 2016.
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]
El Progreso (Spanish pronunciation: [el pɾoˈɣɾeso]), also El Progreso, Achuapa, is a town and municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala.In 2018 the municipality had a population of 22,114 [2] The Pan American Highway passes to the south of the main town, connecting it with Jutiapa, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) to the southwest.
San José Acatempa is a municipality in the Jutiapa department of GuatemalaOne of the first towns founded by the Spanish conquistadors in 1525 under the command of Capitán General Don Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras, which was on route to conquer the region of the old kingdom of Cuzcatlan, now parts of southeastern Guatemala and the republic of El Salvador.