Escuintla, Escuintla
Escuintla is a ceety in sooth central Guatemala. It is the caipital o the Escuintla Depairtment an the admeenistrative seat o Escuintla Municipality.
Escuintla | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
 Esquintla c.1902 | |
  Escuintla Location in Guatemala | |
| Coordinates: 14°17′52″N 90°47′13″W / 14.29778°N 90.78694°W | |
| Kintra |  Guatemala |
| Depairtment | Escuintla |
| Municipality | Escuintla |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Municipal |
| • Mayor | Pedro René Escobar |
| Population (census 2002)[1] | |
| • Municipality | 119,897 |
| • Urban | 86,678 |
| • Releegions | Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism |
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
eeditThe 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
eeditEscuintla 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
eeditJuventud 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
eedit- Auto Safari Chapin
- Beaches
- Rodeos
References
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 18 Mairch 2013.
Freemit airtins
eedit- Escuintla on prensalibre.com Archived 2006-01-30 at the Wayback Machine