Puerto Barrios
Appearance
Puerto Barrios | |
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Coordinates: 15°43′N 88°35′W / 15.717°N 88.583°W | |
Kintra | Guatemala |
Depairtment | Izabal |
Population (2003) | |
• Total | 40,900 |
Puerto Barrios is a ceety in Guatemala, locatit athin the Guwf o Honduras. The bay in which the harbour is locatit is cried Bahia de Amatique. Puerto Barrios is the depairtmental seat o Izabal depairtment an the admeenistrative seat o Puerto Barrios municipality.
Puerto Barrios wis namit efter Preses Justo Rufino Barrios in 1884.[1] It is Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port, thegither wi its mair modren twin port toun juist tae the soothwast, Santo Tomás de Castilla. In 2003 the estimatit population o Puerto Barrios wis 40,900 fowk.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Guatemala, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. (1884). Memoria de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. pp. 68-69
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- offeecial wabsteid o the port o Puerto Barrios Archived 2010-01-20 at the Wayback Machine