* 1977 – 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.

Central America then emerged as a distinct political entity upon the independence of the Federal Republic of Central America a representative democracy with its capital at Guatemala City.

Astronaut View of Guatemala City

Guatemala City ( in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción ; locally known as Guatemala or Guate ), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America.

Within the confines of modern Guatemala City is the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu.

The center of Kaminaljuyu was located a short distance from the oldest part of Guatemala City.

In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town.

Guatemala City was the scene of the declaration of independence of Central America from Spain, and became the capital of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821.

Cathedral of Guatemala City

Guatemala City is the economic, governmental, and cultural capital of the Republic.

Despite its location in the tropics and the many micro climates found within the country, Guatemala City ’ s elevation and the resulting moderating influence of the higher altitude enable it to enjoy a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), though depending on location, it also borders on a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ).

Guatemala City is generally mild, almost springlike, throughout the course of the year.

Guatemala City Zone 10, aerial view

Guatemala City is subdivided into 22 zones designed by the urban engineering of Raúl Aguilar Batres, each one with its own streets and avenues, making it pretty easy to find addresses in the city.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

Guatemala City, zone 4.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

For this reason along with several others, Guatemala City has experienced some growth problems such as transportation saturation, availability of safe potable water in some areas at certain times as well as increased crime.

In other words, Guatemala City faces problems common to many other rapidly expanding cities.

Guatemala City monuments, all around the city streets.

With more than 40 majors, Trinity Christian offers a variety of educational and ministry experiences including studies abroad ; interim trips to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Italy, London, Paris, Egypt, Jamaica, and Israel ; and internships with corporations and non-profit organizations.

offers over 180 daily scheduled flights throughout Belize and Guatemala.

A member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada ( AUCC ), CMU offers classes in three different settings: its Shaftesbury campus in southwest Winnipeg, at Menno Simons College, on the campus of The University of Winnipeg, and Outtatown, a program of cross-cultural study, service, and faith formation with program sites in Guatemala and Africa.

Established in an old house, dating from 1910, near the center of town, Diconte & Axul offers tourists the best opportunity to buy crafts from all over El Salvador, and Guatemala and other countries.

1. the Captainship General of Guatemala, encompassing all of Central America excluding Panama.

Portillo carried all 22 departments and Guatemala City, which was considered the PAN's stronghold.

Violent criminal activity continues to be a problem in Guatemala, including murder, rape, and armed assaults against persons of all nationalities.

In the 2006 United Nations Security Council election, Argentina supported, like all Mercosur countries, the candidacy of Venezuela ( a Mercosur member ) over Guatemala for a non-permanent seat in the Security Council.

Proto-Maya, the common ancestor of all Maya languages, was probably spoken in west-central Guatemala, around the highland pine-oak forests of the Cuchumatanes mountain chain: north of the Motagua and Grijalva river valleys, through patches of cloud forest, and down to the edge of the tropical forest lowlands near the Ixcán and Chixoy ( Negro ) rivers, which flow into the Usumacinta River.

Chilean linguist Rodolfo Lenz have claimed that the word pisco was used all along the Pacific coast of the Americas from Arauco to Guatemala and that the word would be of Quechua origin meaning " bird ".

Since then, Mexico has stated that it would revive the claim only if Guatemala were successful in obtaining all or part of the nation.

Finally, in November 1980, with Guatemala completely isolated, the UN passed a resolution that demanded the independence of Belize, with all its territory intact, before the next session of the UN in 1981.

Jörg played all the remaining tour dates until January 31 in Guatemala City, and celebrated with a special Finnish " Farewell Jörg " tour from November 18 to November 26.

Guatemala City is not underlain by any carbonate rock ; instead, thick deposits of volcanic ash, unwelded ash flow tuffs, and other pyroclastic debris underlie all of Guatemala City.

An " Interim Consultative Board for the Government of Central America " was installed with representatives from all of the provinces, so that in consultation and agreement with the Captain General, it governed the provinces of the Kingdom of Guatemala until a Constitutional Congress was established.

" Insofar as such consequences ensued, we may compare the crime in Sudan to the assassination of Lumumba, which helped plunge the Congo into decades of slaughter, still continuing ; or the overthrow of the democratic government of Guatemala in 1954, which led to 40 years of hideous atrocities ; and all too many others like it.

The Maya, whose territory spanned the Yucatán Peninsula all the way to the Pacific coast of Guatemala, was a literate society who left documentation of their lives ( mostly the lives of the aristocracy ) and belief system in the form of bas-relief sculpture on temples, stelae, and pottery.

During Monge's term, Costa Rica proclaims an alignment with all " western democracies " and begins to work closely to the governments of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, while its relationship with Nicaragua continued to deteriorate.

In addition, Guatemala has in the past claimed that all or part of the nation of Belize is a department of Guatemala ( as a part of the Province of Verapaz ), and this claim is sometimes reflected in maps of the region.

The Ocellated Turkey lives only in a range in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico -- which includes all or part the states of Quintana Roo, Campeche, Yucatán, Tabasco, and Chiapas -- as well as the northern parts of Belize and Guatemala.

ISO 3166-2: GT is the entry for Guatemala in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Through 2008, eleven States had cleared all known mined areas from their territory: Bulgaria, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, FYR Macedonia, Malawi, Suriname, Swaziland, and Tunisia.

* April 27 – An Aviateca Convair 240 crashes near Guatemala City, Guatemala, due to a maintenance error, killing all 28 people on board