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Guatemala City—The Young Capital
A late bloomer of Latin America
written by David Jickling
Among Latin American capitals, Guatemala City is a later comer. Most of the major cities of Spanish America were founded in the 16th century, within a hundred years after the arrival of the Spanish. In contrast, Guatemala City was established at the end of the [...]
Some Guatemalan Cultural Firsts
Guatemala is home to many surprising precedents, for better or worse.
Guatemala is the oldest country in the Americas, though not the oldest republic. Civilization, kindled here some 43 centuries ago, is Guatemala’s loftiest precedent.
Ancient Guatemalans were the first peoples in the Americas known to engineer a sophisticated water-pressure system. They may have been the first [...]
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