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	Guatemala by Region: Alta Verapaz
		The area of Alta Verapaz (high Verapaz) is a cool, humid mountain area of northern Guatemala.
		Onty Petén is further to the north, and Alta Verapaz has a long border to México.
		The dominant language of the Alta Verapaz remains Q'eqchi, and Pocomchí, not Spanish.
	www.showcaves.com /english/gt/region/AltaVerapaz.html (166 words)

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		In Guatemala known from humid Caribbean forests of the mountains of Alta Verapaz, the Sierra de las Minas, the Sierra de Santa Cruz, and the Sierra de Merendón.
		In Guatemala, the species is known from the Atlantic slopes of Alta Verapaz, the Montañas del Mico, and the Sierra de Merendón.
		In Guatemala this species is known from Alta Verapaz, the eastern portion of the Sierra de las Minas, the Montañas del Mico, and the Sierra de Merendón.
	www.uta.edu /biology/campbell/guatemala/checklist.html (7329 words)

	www.sancrisav.net :: informacion y statisticas sobre el municipio hoy :: mapas, clima, calendario, localizacion, ...
		San Cristobal Verapaz is situated at an altitude of 1,393 meters above sea level and has an terrotorial extension of 192 km2.
		San Cristóbal Verapaz is located in a zone of life classified as "humid forest subtropical cold" located at a height between 1 100 msnm and 1 800 msnm.
		Its average depth is estimated to be 12.50m, with a surface area of 476,322.50 m2 and a volume of 4,876,250.20 m3.
	www.sancrisav.net /en_municipio.html (778 words)

	About - Mercy Corps Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 2001, Mercy Corps expanded its presence to Guatemala in response to a request from a group of private donors working in the municipality of Tucurú, in the Department of Alta Verapaz.
		Mercy Corps seeks to contribute to improved standards of living in Alta Verapaz through strategic alliances with other important actors including grassroots citizens groups, local and national NGOs, local and national government, international agencies and donor organizations and the private sector.
		Key partners include the Guatemalan Ministry of Health, the Alta Verapaz Department of Health, the Association of Lawyers for Development (JADE) and the NGO Coordination Council of Alta Verapaz (CONGAV) and many others.
	www.mercycorpsguatemala.org (829 words)

	Table of contents for Maya folktales from the Alta Verapaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Table of contents for Maya folktales from the Alta Verapaz / edited by Elin C. Danien.
		Mayas -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Folklore.
		Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Folklore.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip058/2005005576.html (93 words)

	Antigua Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Baja Verapaz, the more southerly of these two departments, is sparsely populated, a mixture of deep river valleys, dry hills and lush tropical forest, dotted with tiny hamlets.
		Local people say it rains for thirteen months a year here, alternating between straightforward downpour and drizzle of the chipi-chipi, a misty rain that hangs interminably on hills, although the mountains are now being deforested at such a rate that weather patterns may soon be disrupted.
		The capital of Alta Verapaz is Cobán, from where roads head north into Petén, west to el Quiché;, and east to Lake Izabal.
	www.antiguaguatemala.com /coban.htm (306 words)

	The killing of returned refugees: - the Xamán massacre (1997)
		The families of Santiago and Maurilia settled on the Xamán farm, Chisec, in the department of Alta Verapaz, as part of a group of 206 families of Q'eqchi, Q'anjobal, Ixil, Mam and K'iché origin.
		Despite the transfer of the Xamán judicial proceedings from a military to a civilian court, over a year and a half after the massacre no-one has yet been brought to justice for the killing of the 11 returnees and the injuring of 30 others, nor have the victims or their relatives received any compensation.
		Four days after the massacre, the Minister of Defence resigned and the Commander of Military Zone 21, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, responsible for the military patrol was dismissed by President Ramiro de León Carpio.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/guatemal/appeals/one.htm (756 words)

	Guatemala Country Guide - Resorts & Excursions - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
		This region is made up of the two departments of Alta (high) and Baja (Low) Verapaz, which are located in the north-central part of Guatemala.
		As access may be difficult or remote, many of the national parks and rivers need to be visited with registered guides and 4-wheel drive vehicles, either arranged privately or as part of a package offered by tour operators.
		COBÁN: This is the capital of the Alta Verapaz department that, along with Antigua, produces some of the best coffee in Guatemala.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /data/gtm/gtm160.asp (427 words)

	In turkey tamales and more, K'ekchi' Mennonite students enjoy MCC canned meat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ALTA VERAPAZ, Guatemala -- Canned turkey from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is making a difference in the lives of students and staff here at Bezaleel, the education center of the K'ekchi' Mennonite Church.
		The canned turkey will be used during the noon meal during the next two years, helping to tide the school over until it can produce most of its own food.
		The canned turkey is "supporting in a very tangible way the education of the K'ekchi' Mennonite youth in Alta Verapaz," said Rob Cahill, an MCC worker at the school.
	www.mcc.org /areaserv/latinamerica/stories/2003/071103.html (635 words)

	Proyecto Ecológico Quetzal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Founded in 1994 by a group of Guatemalans, BIDAS was established in the department of Alta Verapaz, in the municipality of Cobán.
		The project carried out an inventory of the regional cloud forests and the monitoring of the distribution of the quetzal in the mountains of Caquipec, Guaxac y Yalijux in the department of Alta Verapaz, where the largest density of these rare and beautiful birds is found, roughly 145 birds per square kilometer.
		We employ various components such as sustainable agriculture, bio-monitoring of bird species, and handicraft and ecotourism (low-impact tourism) projects as alternatives to protect the sub-tropical rain and cloud forests of Alta Verapaz and improve the quality of life for the rural poor inhabants of this region.
	ecoquetzal.org /who.html (419 words)

	Knut Eisermann - Ornithological Research and Wildlife Photography in Guatemala
		August, 2001-March, 2002 Investigation of the avifauna in the floodplain of the Ik’bolay river, Guaxac mountains and Sacranix mountains, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
		Proyecto Ecológico Quetzal / BIDAS, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
		Presentation "Nearctic migrant birds in the cloud forest of the Sierra Caquipec, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala", Guatemala City.
	www.knut-eisermann.info /cv.htm (1218 words)

	Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Map & Placename Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Local Map of San Crist—bal Verapaz, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
		Local Map of San Pedro Carch, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
		Local Map of Agua Caliente, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
	www.multimap.com /index/GT2.htm (100 words)

	Mercy Corps > Countries > Guatemala > Program Details: Guatemala
		Mercy Corps currently has two offices in the northern Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala - a main office in Cobán and a health project office in the town of Tucurú.
		In Alta Verapaz, Mercy Corps has taken the lead in strengthening a network of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as leading activities related to land conflict resolution.
		A series of collaborative advocacy campaigns are planned over the five-year grant period to enable the NGOs of Alta Verapaz to speak with one voice on matters of critical concern to their constituents.
	www.mercycorps.org /countries/guatemala/597 (759 words)

	Long-term bird monitoring program in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
		Project: Long-term monitoring of bird communities in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
		Project funding: Conservation of Neotropical migratory bird habitat in the Sierra de Chamá biological corridor, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
		Renner, S. (2003): Structure and diversity of cloud forest bird communities in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, and implications for conservation.
	www.proeval-raxmu.org /english/monitoreo/biomonitoreo.htm (2298 words)

	Cavendishia laurifolia description
		Alta Verapaz: Cobán, 1350 m, Oct 1907 (fl), von Tuerckheim 1626 (neotype, NY; isoneotypes, BM, BR, F, G, GH, MICH, MO, US, W).
		The lectotype cited by Smith (1932) and Luteyn (1976), Warszewicz s.n., from Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, was deposited at B and is presumably destroyed.
		Epiphytic or terrestrial shrub to 1-3 m tall; stem base 2.5-5 cm in diam.; mature branches arching, terete, striate, glabrous; bark tan to grayish-brown; twigs subterete or flattened with blunt angles, striate, reddish-brown, densely puberulous and often with short, reddish, glandular fimbriae.
	www.nybg.org /bsci/res/lut2/cavendishia_laurifolia.html (213 words)

	Laguages of Guatemala and Belize
		In Alta Verapaz: spoken in Cobán, Panzós, Senahú, San Pedro Carchá, San Juan Chamelco, Lanquín, Cahabón, Chisec and Chahal.
		In Baja Verapaz: spoken in Purulhá In Alta Verapaz: spoken in Santa Cruz Verapaz, San Cristóbal Verapaz Tactic, Tamahú and Tucurú.
		In Baja Verapaz: spoken in Cubulco, Rabinal, San Miguel Chicaj, Salamá and San Jerónimo.
	www.larutamayaonline.com /history/idiomas2.html (643 words)

	Alta Norway Climate Bbc World Weather - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the winter is short, it is said to be most as severe as in Norway...
		LincOn.com is a collection of multiple search engines in 200 categories allowing the user to search and find information and link to Websites with icons.
		the coastal ocean from Alta and Baja California to...
	climate.fmqg.com /index.php?k=alta-norway-climate-bbc-world-weather (1157 words)

	Las Verapaces: Coban, Salama, Cahabon - Guide All
		In this guide, the Verapaces Area includes the provinces of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz.
		Located at the north-west of the Province of Alta Verapaz.
		This natural beauty consist in a group of potholes and little waterfalls in the Cahabon River, as it passes trough the calcareous soil of the area.
	www.guideall.com /geogua5.htm (489 words)

	In Guatemala, an ecotour consisting of visiting a small hotel in a Maya village in Alta Verapaz
		Direct communication with the spirit world is easy to learn and empowers people to make their own decisions based on what their hearts are really telling them.
		The hieroglyphs found on the four walls of the Mayan temple of Chiajxucub in Coban, Alta Verapaz, are the twenty day glyphs of the sacred Mayan calendar-cum-almanac known as the Chol Quij (count of days).
		Although the Mayan state had collapsed 600 years before the Spanish arrived; and what remnants of Mayan culture and thought still existed in the 1500’s were forcibly suppressed by the Spanish conquerors and the Catholic Church; nonetheless to this day descendants of the Mayans maintain many of their cultural traditions intact.
	www.earthfoot.org /places/gt002.htm (1871 words)

	Guide to Cobán and the Verapaz
		The dominant language of the Alta Verapaz remains Q’eqchi, and Pocomchí, not Spanish.
		Vivero Verapaz orchid nursery – over 35,000 plants embracing 650 species of orchids collected by the late Otto Mittelstaedt.
		Laguna Lachua: Lake Lachua is like a little Caribbean sea set down in the tropical rainforest of Alta Verapaz.
	www.geocities.com /erik_eck/alta.htm (5902 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Muqb'ilb'e School is located in COBAN, Alta Verapaz; 132 miles from Guatemala City, conected with a very interesting paved road.
		In the prehispanic times the region of Alta Verapaz was called TEZULUTLAN, "Land of War".
		COBAN, ALTA VERAPAZ, "The city of Charles V"
	www.04muqbilbe.info (54 words)

	OTUPAC Tours - Excellence in Tourism - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Farther along, are footpaths edged in misty ferns among towering pines leading to small natural pools that reflect green shades upon their mirror-like surfaces.
		The capital of Alta Verapaz is the city of Coban, located 219 kms north of Guatemala City, situated along the banks of the Cahabon` river.
		Places to see while in Coban is the central market, the El Calvario (the main cathedral) and the Verapaces Nursery, one of the best orchid farms in the Americas boasting 60,000 examples of some 750 species, 200 of which are miniatures.
	www.otupactours.com /tours_verapaces.asp (425 words)

	americas.org - Violence Continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Espana had received death notices and was investigating smuggling.
		lOn May 18, U.S. writer John Heinemann Stroock was abducted from his Alta Verapaz home by armed men but was rescued when neighbors raised the police.
		The most recent discoveries were in the departments of Alta Verapaz and El Quiché.
	www.americas.org /item_11954 (545 words)

	Worldisround - Semuc Champey at Alta Verapaz, Guatemala - Tours in Guatemala photos
		Tours in Guatemala - travel photos - Semuc Champey is located in Alta Verapaz, at aproximately 3 1/2 hours from Guatemala City....
		Semuc Champey is located in Alta Verapaz, at aproximately 3 1/2 hours from Guatemala City.
		Take the road to Alta Verapaz and from there got o San Pedro Carchá.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/26924 (127 words)

	Guatemala Mayan Ruins
		Guatemala Mayan Ruins categories are, Guatemala Mayan Ruins categories are, Location, Who Were the Maya, Alta Verapaz, Ancient Maya Achievements, Chimaltenango, Todos Santos, Quetzaltenango, Totonicapan, Chichicastenango, Santiago Atitlan, San Antonio Palopo, Santa Catarina Palopo, Panjachel, Solola, Baja Verapaz, Antigua, C
		Patzun is known for the Corpus Christi festivities the first week of June.
		The department of Alta Verapaz is about 134 miles due north of Guatemala City.
	www.dirla.com /guatemalamaya.htm (1926 words)

	Guatemal
		In one incident, uniformed troops of the Guatemalan army were involved in a massacre of returnees in the northern department of Alta Verapaz.
		Other countries should also strengthen their efforts to ensure progress in human rights cases; Great Britain, for example, should reconsider its recent lifting of a ban on military sales to Guatemala until measurable progress is made in prosecuting human rights violations.
		Armed conflict and the attendant instability in southern Mexico have made it an increasingly less hospitable haven for Guatemalan refugees at the same time that the recent attacks on former refugees in Guatemala have augmented the fear and insecurity associated with return.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1996/Guatemal.htm (16041 words)

	The departments (provinces) of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The departments (provinces) of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz
		he departments (provinces) of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz are off the beaten tourist trail, yet are second to none when it comes to natural beauty and folklore.
		There are two trails through the reserve, a lush, high forest ecosystem that is well worth the walk even if you don't manage to spot one of the rare and elusive quetzals.
	www.nvmundo.com /travelinfo/guatemala/guatsys5.htm (216 words)

	ESRI News -- ArcNews Winter 2002/2003 Issue -- Guatemalan Municipalities Begin Mapping Their Futures With GIS
		She also contacted Geosistec, ESRI, and NIMA, requesting help to bring GIS capabilities to these rural planning offices.
		In the spring of 2002 O'Callaghan began her first three training sessions in the departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz in central Guatemala.
		These municipalities were chosen because of the level of computer skills of the planning staff and the quality of their computers.
	www.esri.com /news/arcnews/winter0203articles/guatemalan-municipalities.html (911 words)

	Colorful Bread Basket Liner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition to buying fair trade Guatemalan handicrafts and Mayan weavings, we take a portion of our proceeds and send contributions to orphanages and other charities in Guatemala. Your purchase of a fair trade Guatemalan craft from our site really makes a difference in the lives of many people in Guatemala.
		Hand-made by Maya women in Alta Verapaz, these colorful cloths add beautiful and wonderful color to any table!
		These cloths are hand-made in Alta Verapaz Guatemala on the backstrap loom by Maya weavers.
	www.mayantraditions.com /browseproducts/Colorful-Bread-Basket-Liner.html (242 words)

	San Cristobal Verapaz (AV PI 150 F) D
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		The sleek dark indigo skirt is smooth in front, and pleated in the back.
		NOTICE: Orders outside the United States vary in shipping cost and take longer to arrive.
	guatedolls.com /Department_Listing/Alta_Verapaz/San_Cristobal_Verapaz__AV_PI_1/san_cristobal_verapaz__av_pi_1.html (137 words)

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