Guatemala history, folklore and traditions
Although the remains that have reached us are very scarce, the mural painting of the classic Maya period reached a high technical perfection and great artistic quality, achieving a delicate balance between naturalism of designs and severity imposed by the conventionalism of the items. Although ...
Antigua (also Antigua Guatemala), in southern Guatemala City, capital of Sacatepéquez department, near Guatemala City. Located in a narrow valley at the foot of the dormant volcano Water (3,752 m). It is the market for the neighbouring mountainous area, where coffee is grown high quality. The ...
Alta Verapaz department located in the geographic center of Guatemala, partly on the highlands sedimentary and partly on the low plain interior of Peten. Its terrain is varied, with limestone plains to the north and saws alternating with deep canyons to the south. The river network is characterized ...
Our thanks to Mr Ricardo Barrios Ortega by sending this material. In the early months of the year 1963, at the initiative of the then Commander of the Guatemalan Air Force, Colonel Aviation Pilot Aviator Manuel Octavio Zea Carrascosa, start applications and coordination to create a set mari ...
Being public and the wishes of undoubted independence of the Spanish government that in writing and orally has shown the people of this capital received by mail last several constitutional offices of the municipalities of Ciudad Real, Tuxtla Comitan and that reporting the jury and proclaimed that in ...
Instrument to Guatemalans that we give the name of indigenous and we find both in the city and in rural areas of the...
It's a bird that very few have been privileged to admire in all its splendor. The quetzal (Pharamachrus mocinno), st...
"Land of eternal spring, at the Centre for americas" Cathedral, Guatemala. The cathedral flanks one side of a c...
