Escuintla Department
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Escuintla Department
Departmento de Escuintla | |
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 Counterclockwise from top: Puerto Quetzal, Pacaya Volcano, Puerto San Jose, wind farm in san vicente, Palin & Palin-Escuintla highway | |
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 Escuintla | |
| Coordinates: 14°17′52″N 90°47′13″W / 14.29778°N 90.78694°W | |
| Country |  Guatemala |
| Capital | Escuintla |
| Municipalities | 13 |
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| • Type | Departmental |
| Area | |
| 4,384 km2 (1,693 sq mi) | |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| 733,181 | |
| • Density | 167.2/km2 (433.2/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 448,531 |
| • Ethnicities | Ladino Poqomam |
| • Religions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism |
| Time zone | UTC-6 |
| ISO 3166 code | GT-ES |
Escuintla (Spanish pronunciation: [esˈkwintla]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital of the department is the city of Escuintla. Escuintla covers an area of 4,384 km2 and is situated in the coastal lowland region, directly south of Guatemala City, and bordered by the Pacific Ocean. Escuintla produces about 43 percent of gross domestic product of Guatemala.
History
[edit]Cotzumalhuapa was an important prehispanic archaeological culture in this area. Unlike the rest of Guatemala where the indigenous people have historically been Maya or Xinca, the Escuintla department (specifically the zone between the Coyolate and Michatoya Rivers) was populated by Pipil people by the time of the Spanish conquest in the early sixteenth century.[2]
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[edit]- ↑ Citypopulation.de Population of departments in Guatemala
- ↑ Fowler, William (1989). The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations: The Pipil-Nicarao of Central America. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 52–53.
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