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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 ...
Librería Porrúa Hermanos y Compañía S.A. de C.V. is a bookseller and publishing company in Mexico, and is one of the longest-established businesses operating in the Mexican book trade. The Porrúa name has been associated with books and publishing since the beginning of the 20th century, through its flagship Librería Porrúa bookstore in ...
Librerías Gandhi (Gandhi Bookstores) is a bookstore chain in Mexico. They were created in 1971 and are one of the biggest bookstore chains in Mexico. After 40 years they now have more than 30 stores all over the country. The public that comes to the bookstores are mostly students, teachers, young adults, professionals, and anyone interested in ...
Major lakes (lagos) in Guatemala Lake Location Department (state administrative district) Amatitlán: 14.4500 -90.5667 (14°27'N ~ 90°34'W) Guatemala: Atitlán:
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes in Guatemala. Volcanoes. Name Elevation (m) Elevation (ft) Coordinates Last eruption Acatenango: 3976: