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The National Library of Guatemala ( Biblioteca Nacional) is the national library of Guatemala. It is located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City near the National Palace of Guatemala . The library has 7 reading rooms among them are: School reading room with 225,000 books. General reading room with 110,000 books together with collections of old books ...
The Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 departments ( Spanish: departamentos) [1] which in turn are divided into 340 municipalities. [2] [3] The departments are governed by a departmental governor, appointed by the President . In addition, Guatemala has claimed that all or part of the nation of Belize is a department of Guatemala, and this ...
Major lakes (lagos) in Guatemala Lake Location Department (state administrative district) Amatitlán: 14.4500 -90.5667 (14°27'N ~ 90°34'W) Guatemala: Atitlán:
Antigua Guatemala: 78 59 091 757.57 5 Magdalena Milpas Altas: 19 12 766 671.89 6 Pastores: 19 19 661 1 034.79 7 San Antonio Aguas Calientes: 17 12 716 748 8
Women, Children, Men, many had their heads bashed with hammers and thrown into a well. Others thrown in still alive. Xamán massacre. 5 October 1995. Chisec, Alta Verapaz Department. 11. Members of the Guatemalan Army killed 11 people and injured 27 on a farm in Xamán [5] [6] [7] Attack against a bus in Nicaragua.
Leyendas de Guatemala ( Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias. The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala. It reflects the author's study of anthropology and Central American indigenous civilizations, undertaken in France, at ...
Garifuna. Foreign. English. Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-six Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean ...
The group includes both egg-laying and viviparous species, with the latter being more common in species living at high elevations. There are 136 species in the Americas, 16 of which occur in Guatemala. Giant horned lizard – Phrynosoma asio Cope, 1864. Bocourt's spiny lizard – Sceloporus acanthinus Bocourt, 1873.