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The Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias, commonly called Teatro Nacional, is a cultural center in 
The center is named for Guatemalan writer and Nobel Laurate
The National Theatre of Guatemala website
Theatres in Guatemala Buildings and structures in Guatemala City Miguel Angel Asturias {{Guatemala-struct-stub
Guatemala City
Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Depa ...
, 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 ...
. It is located in the Centro Cívico (Civic Center) of the city and was built in the same place of the old ''Fuerte de San José''. Its form, which emulates a seated jaguar
The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large felidae, cat species and the only extant taxon, living member of the genus ''Panthera'' that is native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the biggest cat spe ...
, stands out from the adjacent buildings. The complex, which was designed by the architects Efrain Recinos and Carlos Alberto Haeussler was completed in 1978.
The center is named for Guatemalan writer and Nobel Laurate Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of i ...
. It contains the Gran Sala Efrain Recinos, a large proscenium theater named for the architect that designed the structure's facade, the Teatro de Cámara Hugo Carrillo
Hugo Carrillo Cavero, also Ugo Facundo Carrillo (born October 30, 1956) is a Quechua poet, singer-songwriter, singer, anthropologist and Peruvian politician, congressman for the department from Huancavelica, and belongs to Peru Wins.
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, a smaller, black box theater named for the Guatemalan playwright and director, and an outdoor amphitheater, the Teatro al Aire Libre. The center also includes various plazas and salons, as well as the National Marimba
The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the mari ...
Institute, Instituto Nacional de la Marimba.
References
External links
The National Theatre of Guatemala website
Theatres in Guatemala Buildings and structures in Guatemala City Miguel Angel Asturias {{Guatemala-struct-stub