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Cathedral, Guatemala. The cathedral flanks one side of a central square of Guatemala, capital city namesake, which also highlights the government palace. The cathedral, begun in 1782, was completed in the year 1815. Therefore, like most of the most prominent buildings in the city, was conducted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth following the canons of the neoclassical style. Its interior is preserved remarkable paintings and sculptures from the colonial period.

The Guatemala City was rebuilt according to new models of construction and development after a series of earthquakes that occurred between 1874 and 1918. The area north of the city was again badly damaged during another major earthquake in 1976 and erected new buildings in the southern part of the city.

Speaking of the country you saw birth, is to talk about their culture, traditions, folklore and the quality of its people. Guatemala is a country rich in languages, tourist sites and a story worth counting. I will take my interesting sites in Guatemala Bella: what makes a big country. All information to publicize what we have, should not be owned by anyone, we are part of this land as well as what are its beauty, its history, so we have the same right to make them known.

Quauhtemallan: “Land of trees. Uhatezmala:” Hill who throws fire. ”
Guatemala (republic) (official name, Republic of Guatemala), Central americas republic, is bounded on the west and north by Mexico, Belize and the east by the Gulf of Honduras, in the southeast with Honduras and El Salvador, and south by the ocean Pacific. The country has a total area of 108,890 km2. The capital is Guatemala City.
Approximately two thirds of the territory of Guatemala are formed by mountains, many of volcanic origin. The highlands include two parallel ridges, the Cuchumatanes mountains and the system of the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico continued the same name, which runs through Guatemala from west to east and divides the country into two plateaus of unequal length.

The North Slope, the region of El Peten, grazing ranges from jungles to high (tropical rain forests) and is sparsely populated. At the close of the Pacific slope, very moist and fertile in its central part is located the most densely populated. A major chain of volcanoes runs parallel to the Pacific coast, although most are inactive, but there have been major eruptions of Tacaná (4,030 m) on the border with Mexico. The country’s highest peak is the Tajumulco Volcano (4,220 m), also highlights the Santa Maria (3,772 m), Water (3,766 m), Fire (3,763 m), the Atitlan volcano (3,537 m) located near the beautiful lake of the same name, and the Pacaya (2,552 m). Earthquakes are frequent in the vicinity of the volcanic belt in the south, where many villages have been destroyed. In the Atlantic coast, the main outlet in this ocean, is the largest lake in the country, Izabal.
Rivers of Guatemala longer are: Motagua, Usumacinta (part of the border with Mexico), Polochic, Dulce and Sarstún (Sarstoon), which is part of the border with Belize.

Weather
Across the country dominates the same kind of climate, warm tropical, although temperatures vary with altitude. Among the 915 m 2,440 m, an area in which concentrates the bulk of the population, the days are warm and cold nights, and has an average annual temperature of 20 ° C. The climate of coastal regions is more tropical characteristics, the Atlantic coast is more humid than the Pacific, with a temperature whose average or an annual average of 28.3 ° C. The rainy season is submitted between May and November. Annual rainfall in the north ranges between 1,525 mm and 2,540 mm; Guatemala City, in the mountains of the south, receives about 1,320 mm of annual average.

Natural resources
The soil, very fertile, is the most important resource of Guatemala, which is basically an agricultural country and livestock. Some of the minerals in the country, although not all sufficiently exploited, are iron, oil, nickel, lead, zinc and chromite, have been discovered deposits of uranium and mercury. The region of El Peten provides timber and medicinal tree species, such as rubber tree, chicozapote, ebony, mahogany, rosewood and others; wood and its products are used both for local consumption and for export.