2. Introduction
• Guatemala City is located in Central America.
• It was founded in 2 of january of 1776.
• It has moved various times the last time because of an
earthquake in Sta. Marta on the 1 of December of 1775.
• It development has been affected varios times as cause of
natural hazards
3. Geography
• Located in Central America
• Its in El valle de la Ermita
• It has soft temperatures, between
12 and 28 degrees
• Guatemala (country) Limits at the
west and at the north with mexico
at the west with Belice and at the
south-west with Honduras and El
salvador
• It has a total surface of 108.889
km2
4.
5. How is Guatemala City laid out?
• Guatemala City is arranged
in different zones delimited
by avenues. It has 25 zones
except zones 20, 22, 23
because are of other state
6. How is Guatemala City laid out?
• It has a grid plan that expands
everywhere creating in the outines
irregular branches
• It is divided in quarters what
makes finding streets easy
• In the capital there are different
colonies that consists in suburbs
sorrounded with a wall and
security
• it also has shanty towns
• and some apartment buildings
7.
8. History and development
• everything started with the maya
city kaminaljuyu it is dated of
2000 years before. it is known
that was the commercial city of
the territory
• after several countries it was
decided that the capital had to be
moved. the final capital received
the name of Nueva Guatemala de
la Asuncion and was aspanish
colony
9. Enviromental Issues
• Guatemala City has a lot of
enviromental issues
• the airport is too close to a zoo so
the sound affect animals
• some zones dont have the correct
system of water
• some have very contamined the
water
10. Infrastructure
• Guatemala City has an
international airport ( La Aurora )
• several hospitals
• several national banks
headquarters
• power plants
• It has a financial center
