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    History of Guatemala City

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    Human settlement on the present site of Guatemala City began with the Maya who built a city at Kaminaljuyu. The Spanish colonists established a small town, which was made a capital city in 1775. At this period the Central Square with the Cathedral and Royal Palace were constructed. After Central American independence from Spain the city became the capital of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821. The 19th century saw the construction of the monumental Carrera Theater in the 1850s, and the Presidential Palace in the 1890s. At this time the city was expanding around the 30 de junio Boulevard and elsewhere, displacing native settlements from the ancient site. Earthquakes in 1917–1918 destroyed many historic structures. Under Jorge Ubico in the 1930s a hippodrome and many new public buildings were constructed, although peripheral poor neighborhoods that formed after the 1917–1918 earthquakes continued to lack basic amenities. Wikipedia

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    In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town. It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1620 (this was the second hermitage).The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua. [2]
  3. britannica.com

    Dec 20, 2024Guatemala City also dominates the cultural life of the country. It is the seat of the principal faculties of the San Carlos University of Guatemala (established 1676 in Antigua Guatemala); the major institutions for artistic, commercial, vocational, and military education; the Society of Geography and History; and several important museums. Public buildings of note include the National Palace ...
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  4. en.wikipedia.org

    Guatemala City (Spanish: Ciudad de Guatemala) is known colloquially by Guatemalans as La Capital or Guate.Its formal name is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción [8] (New Guatemala of the Assumption). The latter name is derived from the fact that it was a new Guatemala after the old one (La Antigua) was ruined by an earthquake.Also, Assumption is in honor of the Virgin of the Assumption, whose ...
  5. britannica.com

    5 days agoGuatemala, country of Central America that is distinguished from its Central American neighbors by the dominance of an Indigenous culture within its interior uplands. The country's capital, Guatemala City, is a major metropolitan center. Quetzaltenango in the western highlands is the nucleus of the Indigenous population.
  6. britannica.com

    History of Guatemala, a survey of important events and people in the history of Guatemala from the time of European settlement. Bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize and the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, to the southeast by El Salvador, and to the south by ... The importance of Guatemala City lay in ...
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    The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC - 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250-900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.The Maya states in the Belize central highlands continued to thrive until ...
  8. wikiwand.com

    Guatemala City is the site of the native Mayan city of Kaminaljuyu in Mesoamerica, which was occupied primarily between 1500 BCE and 1200 CE. The present city was founded by the Spanish after their colonial capital, now called Antigua Guatemala, was destroyed by the devastating 1773 Santa Marta earthquake and its aftershocks. [5] It became the third royal capital of the surrounding Captaincy ...
  9. kids.kiddle.co

    Human settlement on the present site of Guatemala City began with the Maya who built a city at Kaminaljuyu.The Spanish colonists established a small town, which was made a capital city in 1775. At this period the Central Square with the Cathedral and Royal Palace were constructed. After Central American independence from Spain the city became the capital of the United Provinces of Central ...
  10. newworldencyclopedia.org

    Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic, social, and cultural center of the nation of Guatemala.It is the largest city in Central America.The city lies in a valley of the central highlands at an elevation of 4,897 feet (1,493 metres) above sea level.
  11. world-guides.com

    The Mayans were here long before the modern history of Guatemala City began with the arrival of the Spanish. Kaminaljuyu was the name of this ancient Mayan city when it was inhabited for around 2,000 years, between 1,200 BC and 800 AD. Unfortunately, most of Kaminaljuyu was paved over by modern development. ...
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