Izabal Depairtment
| Izabal | |
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| — Depairtment — | |
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| Coordinates: 15°44′0″N 88°36′0″W / 15.733333°N 88.6°W | |
| Kintra |  Guatemala |
| Depairtment | Izabal |
| Capital | Puerto Barrios |
| Municipalities | 5 |
| Govrenment | |
| - Govreor | |
| Aurie | |
| - Depairtment | 9,038 km2 (3,489.6 sq mi) |
| - Watter | 590 km2 (227.8 sq mi) |
| Indwallers (Census 2002)[1] | |
| - Depairtment | 314,306 |
| - 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.
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