Escuintla, Escuintla

Escuintla
Municipality
Esquintla c.1902
Escuintla Location in Guatemala
Coordinates: 14°17′52″N 90°47′13″W
Kintra	Guatemala
Depairtment	Escuintla
Municipality	Escuintla
Govrenment
• Teep	Municipal
• Mayor	Pedro René Escobar
Population  (census 2002)
• Municipality	119,897
• Urban	86,678
• Releegions	Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism

Escuintla is a ceety in sooth central Guatemala. It is the caipital o the Escuintla Depairtment an the admeenistrative seat o Escuintla Municipality.

In 2003 the ceety haed a population o aboot 68,000 fowk. It is on the border o the central hielands an the Paceefic coastal plain.

Economy

The ceety is amang the mair industrialisit auries o the kintra. Ane o the maist important agricultural products o the region is succar cane. Ither products are tobacco, seafuid, an kye. Escuintla is bathed bi the watters o the Paceefic, an produces aboot 43 percent o gross domestic product o Guatemala, is statistically the depairtment, province or region in Mesoamerica wi lawer unemployment an extreme poverty, this contrasts wi the economic an social reality o Guatemala.

Transportation

Escuintla uised tae be an important stap for trains goin tae Puerto San José till 2007. The day, the CA-2 an CA-9 heich-gates cross here.

Sports

Juventud Escuintleca fitbaa club play thair hame gemmes at the Estadio Ricardo Muñoz Gálvez. Maist recently thay hae again been playin in the seicont tier o Guatemalan fitbaa.

Attractions

• Auto Safari Chapin
• Beaches
• Rodeos

Freemit airtins

• Escuintla on prensalibre.com Archived 2006-01-30 at the Wayback Machine