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El Chal, Petén
El Chal is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Petén, located approximately southeast of the departmental capital, Flores. Its name may derive from Itzaʼ ''chal'', "shawl", or ''aj-chal ja'', "clear water." Geography El Chal is located in the southern part of the Petén Basin. It borders the municipalities of Santa Ana to the north, Dolores to the east, Poptún to the south, Sayaxché to the west, and San Francisco to the northwest. The municipality covers an area of . The terrain of El Chal is slightly uneven, becoming more rugged as it approaches the Maya Mountains in the southeast. It has been significantly deforested: as of 2015, 59% of the land is without any forest cover and only 14% is covered by the original forest. The southwestern tip of the municipality lies in the Machaquilá wildlife refuge. El Chal lies in the watershed of the Pasión River, being drained by its tributaries such as the San Juan, Poxte and Machaquila. These rivers are permanent b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Guatemala
The Departments of Guatemala, departments of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala are divided into 340 municipality, municipalities (). The municipalities are listed below, by department. Department capitals are written in bold. Alta Verapaz Baja Verapaz Chimaltenango Chiquimula El Progreso Escuintla Guatemala Huehuetenango Izabal Jalapa Jutiapa Petén Quetzaltenango Quiché Retalhuleu Sacatepéquez San Marcos Santa Rosa Sololá Suchitepéquez Totonicapán Zacapa References {{DEFAULTSORT:Municipalities Of Guatemala Municipalities of Guatemala, Subdivisions of Guatemala Lists of administrative divisions, Guatemala, Municipalities Administrative divisions in North America, Guatemala 2 Second-level administrative divisions by country, Municipalities, Guatemala Guatemala geography-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNEP-WCMC
The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) is the specialist biodiversity centre of United Nations Environment Programme, UN Environment Programme, based in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. UNEP-WCMC has been part of UN Environment Programme since 2000 and has responsibility for biodiversity assessment and support to policy development and implementation. The "World Conservation Monitoring Centre" was previously an independent organisation jointly managed by International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, UN Environment Programme and World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF established in 1988. Before that, the centre was a part of the IUCN Secretariat. Areas of work The activities of UNEP-WCMC include biodiversity assessment, support to international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), capacity building and management o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Chal 5
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Qʼeqchiʼ Language
The Qʼeqchiʼ language, also spelled Kekchi, Kʼekchiʼ, or Kekchí, is one of the Mayan languages from the Quichean languages, Quichean branch, spoken within Qʼeqchiʼ people, Qʼeqchiʼ communities in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Distribution The area where Qʼeqchiʼ is spoken spreads across northern Guatemala into southern Belize. There are also Qʼeqchiʼ speaking communities in Mexico. In Mexico, Q'eqchi' is spoken in the states of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Chiapas, mainly in the communities of Quetzal-Etzná and Los Laureles, in the Campeche Municipality and in Maya Tecun II and Santo Domingo Kesté in the Champotón Municipality, state of Campeche. It was calculated that the core of the Qʼeqchiʼ-speaking area in northern Guatemala extends over 24,662 square kilometers (about 9,522 square miles). The Department (country subdivision), departments and specific municipalities where Qʼeqchiʼ is regularly spoken in Guatemala include: In the country of Belize, Qʼeqchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diario De Centro América
The ''Diario de Centro América'' is the newspaper of public record in Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b .... Founded in 1880, it is the official newspaper of the country's government. References * * * External links *''Diario de Centro América'' Newspapers published in Guatemala {{Guatemala-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of The Republic Of Guatemala
The Congress of the Republic () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Guatemala. The Guatemalan Congress is made up of 160 deputies who are elected by direct universal suffrage to serve four-year terms. The electoral system is closed party list proportional representation. 31 of the deputies are elected on a nationwide list, whilst the remaining 127 deputies are elected in 22 multi-member constituencies. Each of Guatemala's 22 departments serves as a district, with the exception of the department of Guatemala containing the capital, which on account of its size is divided into two ''(distrito central'' and ''distrito Guatemala)''. Departments are allocated seats based on their population size and they are shown in the table below. Deputies by Department History Guatemala had a bicameral legislature in the 1845 constitution. It was replaced with the unicameral Chamber of Representatives (), which was in turn reformulated as the National Assembly () in 1879 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Quetzal
El Quetzal () is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It was recognised as municipality on 19 June 1900. The major source of income is the agriculture. "La Inmaculada Concepción" parish "La Inmaculada Concepción" (English:The Immaculate Conception") parish in La Reforma municipality was founded on 1 January 1956 and originally served both La Reforma and El Quetzal municipalities. Its first priest was father Jaime López, a Franciscan, who led the parish until 5 March 1958. His successor was father Juan Bartolomé Bueno, who was in charge until 31 July 1960, when father Pedro López Nadal, from Spain, took charge. On 23 April 1961, church construction was completed and it was opened and blessed by San Marcos dioceses Bishop, Celestino Fernández. Father López Nadal led the parish until 25 January 1964, when father Juan Van Der Vaeren took his place. In 1965, El Quetzal was elevated to parish and had its own priest, leaving La Reforma. Clima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various Left-wing politics, leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed Guatemalan genocide, genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and there were widespread human rights violations against civilians. The context of the struggle was based on longstanding issues over land distribution. Wealthy Guatemalans, mainly of White Latin Americans#Guatemala, European descent, and foreign companies like the American United Fruit Company had control over much of the land leading to conflicts with the rural, disproportionately indigenous, peasants who worked the land. Democratic elections in 1944 and 1951 which were during the Guatemalan Revolution had brought popular leftist governments to power, who sought to ameliorate working conditions and implement land distribution. A 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, United States-backed coup d'état in 1954 inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Conquest Of Petén
The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala, conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. A wide lowland plain covered with dense rainforest, Petén contains a central drainage basin with a series of lakes and areas of savannah. It is crossed by several ranges of low karstic hills and rises to the south as it nears the Guatemalan Highlands. The conquest of Petén Basin, Petén, a region now incorporated into the modern republic of Guatemala, climaxed in 1697 with the capture of Nojpetén, the island capital of the Itza people, Itza kingdom, by Martín de Ursúa, Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi. With the defeat of the Itza, the last independent and unconquered native kingdom in the Americas fell to European colonisers. Sizeable Maya peoples, Maya populations existed in Petén before the conquest, particularly around the central lakes and along the rivers. Petén was divided into different M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilapia
Tilapia ( ) is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the coelotilapine, coptodonine, heterotilapine, oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "Tilapiini"), with the economically most important species placed in the Coptodonini and Oreochromini. Tilapia are mainly freshwater fish native to Africa and the Middle East, inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers, and lakes, and less commonly found living in brackish water. Historically, they have been of major importance in artisanal fishing in Africa, and they are of increasing importance in aquaculture and aquaponics. Tilapia can become a problematic invasive species in new warm-water habitats such as Australia, whether deliberately or accidentally introduced, but generally not in temperate climates due to their inability to survive in cold water. Traditionally a popular and affordable food in the Philippines with a mild taste, tilapia has been the fourth-most consume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machaquila River
The Machaquila River is a river of Guatemala. In addition to the San Juan and Cancuén rivers, the Machaquila is one of the three main tributaries of the Pasión River. See also *List of rivers of Guatemala This is a list of rivers in Guatemala arranged by drainage basin. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under their larger stream's name. Gulf of Mexico The following rivers flow into the Grijalva River i ... References * * *Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. Rivers of Guatemala Usumacinta River {{Guatemala-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poxte River
Poxte is a river and valley of the Maya Mountains in Guatemala. The valley is noted for numerous Maya civilization, Maya sites such as Ixtutz and the Petén Caves. The river is located southwest of the Dolores, Petén, Dolores plateau and northwest of Poptún, in the Guatemalan Departments of Guatemala, department of Petén (department), Petén. The source of the river is on the same plateau, near the villages of Boca del Monte and Santo Domingo. The river flows westwards through the similarly named hamlet of Poxte, it then disappears amongst the karst topography and resumes its course to the west. It continues westwards into the San Juan River (Guatemala), San Juan River, a tributary of the Machaquila River. The Machaquila River feeds into the Pasión River, which flows into the Usumacinta River and the Gulf of Mexico. The upper reaches of the Poxte River shares its drainage with the Mopan River, which flows eastwards into the Caribbean Sea. The Poxte River Basin measures long an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
