Escuintla Depairtment
Escuintla is ane o the 22 depairtments o Guatemala. Its caipital is the ceety o Escuintla. The depairtment o Escuintla covers an aurie o 4,384 km² an is situatit in the coastal lawland region tae the Sooth o Guatemala Ceety, bordered bi the Paceefic Ocean. Escuintla produces about 43 percent of gross domestic product o Guatemala. It is statistically the depairtment, province or region in Mesoamerica wi the lawest unemployment an extreme poverty.
Escuintla | |
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Depairtment | |
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 Escuintla | |
| Coordinates: 14°17′52″N 90°47′13″W / 14.29778°N 90.78694°W | |
| Kintra |  Guatemala |
| Depairtment | Escuintla |
| Caipital | Escuintla |
| Municipalities | 13 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Departmental |
| Area | |
| • Depairtment | 4384 km2 (1,693 sq mi) |
| Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
| • Depairtment | 538,746 |
| • Urban | 256,972 |
| • Ethnicities | Ladino Poqomam |
| • Releegions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism |
| Time zone | -6 |
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eedit- ↑ "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". Insituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). 2002. Archived frae the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 4 Mey 2012.