Izabal Depairtment

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Izabal
Depairtment
Izabal
Izabal
Coordinates: 15°44′0″N 88°36′0″W / 15.73333°N 88.60000°W / 15.73333; -88.60000
Kintra Guatemala
DepairtmentIzabal
CapitalPuerto Barrios
Municipalities5
Govrenment
 • TeepDepairtmental
Area
 • Depairtment9038 km2 (3,490 sq mi)
 • Water590 km2 (230 sq mi)
Population
 (Census 2002)[1]
 • Depairtment314,306
 • Urban
90,508
 • Ethnicities
Ladino Q'eqchi' Garífuna Afro-Caribbean
 • Releegions
Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya
Time zone-6

Izabal is ane o the 22 depairtments o Guatemala. Its coastal auries form pairt o the hameland o the Garifuna fowk.

Izabal is bordered tae the north bi Belize, tae the northeast bi the Guwf o Honduras, an tae the east bi Honduras, an bi the Guatemalan depairtments o Petén to the northwast, Alta Verapaz tae the wast, an Zacapa tae the sooth.

The depairtment o Izabal surroonds Lago Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), Guatemala's lairgest lake (about 48 km lang an 24 km wide, wi an aurie o aboot 590 km²). The Spainyie Colonial fort o San Felipe, nou a Guatemalan naitional monument, owerleuks the point whare the lake flows intae the Río Dulce.

The sma toun o Izabal is on the sooth shore o the lake; afore the construction o the ports of Livingston an Puerto Barrios in the 19t century this was Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port an wis the oreeginal seat o Izabal depairtment; nouadays, housomeivver, Izabal toun is a remote veelage that gets little traffic.

Frae the aurie aroond Lake Izabal, the Depairtment o Izabal stretches alang the Río Dulce tae the coast o the Caribbean Sea.

The depairtment o Izabal includes the ports o Puerto Barrios (the depairtmental seat), Santo Tomás de Castilla, Livingston an Guatemala's free trade zone Zolic. Izabal includes the Pre-Columbie Maya ruins o Quirigua an aw.

Municipalities[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. El Estor
  2. Livingston
  3. Los Amates
  4. Morales
  5. Puerto Barrios

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". INE. 2002. Archived frae the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 3 August 2012.

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