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	Escuintla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Escuintla (sometimes spelled Esquintla) is a small city in south central Guatemala.
		It is the capital of the department of Escuintla and the administrative seat of Escuintla municipality.
		The city of Escuintla is located at 14.30° N 90.78° W.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Escuintla (88 words)

	ESCUINTLA - LoveToKnow Article on ESCUINTLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		, the capital of the department of Escuintla, Guatemala; on the southern slope of the Sierra Madre, 45 m.
		Escuintla is locally celebrated for its hot mineral springs.
		It is the commercial centre of a fertile district, which produces coffee, canesugar and cocoa; it has also a brisk transit trade in most of the products or ~uatemala, owing to its position on the interoceanic railway between Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic and San Jos (30 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ES/ESCUINTLA.htm (104 words)

	Encyclopedia: Guatemala
		Izabal is one of the 22 departments in the nation of Guatemala.
		Jalapa Jalapa is a department of Guatemala, in the south east of the republic.
		All of the major cities are situated in the southern half of the country; the major cities are the capital Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango and Escuintla.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guatemala (4448 words)

	Encyclopedia: Zacapa Department
		Departments of Guatemala Guatemala is divided in 22 departments Department (Capital) Alta Verapaz (Cobán) Baja Verapaz (Salamá) Chimaltenango (Chimaltenango) Chiquimula (Chiquimula) El Petén (Flores) El Progreso (Guastatoya) El Quiché; (Santa Cruz del Quiché) Escuintla (Escuintla) Guatemala (Guatemala) Huehuetenango (Huehuetenango) Izabal (Puerto Barrios) Jalapa (Jalapa) Jutiapa (Jutiapa) Quetzaltenango (Quetzaltenango) Retalhuleu (Retalhuleu) Sacatep...
		Jalapa is a department of Guatemala, in the south east of the republic.
		Retalhuleu is a department located the south-west of Guatemala, extending from the mountains down to the Pacific Ocean coast.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zacapa-Department (314 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Welcome to the Escuintla Photo Gallery To view the pictures from our journeys, press the arrows on either side of the first row of images.
		ESCUINTLA ESCUINTLA, the capital of the department of Escuintla, Guatemala; on the southern slope of the Sierra Madre, 45 m.
		EscuintlÃ¡ is the capital of the department of EscuintlÃ¡.
	escuintla.iqexpand.com (336 words)

	Guatemala Country Guide - Resorts & Excursions - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The region is characterised by fl volcanic sand beaches on the coast; mangrove swamps irrigated by numerous rivers behind and lush, subtropical forests further inland.
		ESCUINTLA DEPARTMENT: Guatemala has 33 volcanoes, three of which are still active.
		Northwest of Escuintla are the sugarcane fields of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa.
	www.worldtravelguide.net /data/gtm/gtm190.asp?TravelMenu=Down (463 words)

	ar52sum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1996, along with a large outbreak of classic dengue (a flu-like, self-limiting viral disease), 18 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF (a serious, often fatal disease) were reported in the department of Escuintla, Guatemala, located along the southern coast of the country.
		As a result of this intervention, no cases of DHF were recorded in the department of Escuintla in 1997.
		In addition, although there was substantial improvement in the case-reporting system, the total number of cases of classic dengue recorded between weeks 28 and 33 of the 1997 epidemiological year (the weeks in which the greatest number of cases were recorded) was lower than the same period in 1996.
	www.crosslink.net /~ehp/ar52sum.htm (1025 words)

	Santa Ana Department -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Santa Ana is a (A specialized division of a large organization) department of (A republic on the Pacific coast of Central America) El Salvador in the northwest of the country.
		This department was created on February 8, 1855.
		It has the Tazumal Archelogical Ruins, southwest of Chalchuapa as well as the department has been the cultural focus of the Maya-Quiche tribes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Sa/Santa_Ana_Department.htm (91 words)

	Employment Sector: Rebuilding Civil Society: Rural Workers' Organizations in Guatemala - R. Plant
		The second visit was to several commercial farms, mainly cotton farms, in the Pacific coastal department of Escuintla, where interviews were held with seasonal migrant workers and their families.
		The final visit was to the department of Alta Verapaz, a coffee and cardamom growing area which has been affected by considerable land and rural labour conflict, to meet with the representatives of several affiliated organizations, and to visit farms where organized workers were threatened with eviction.
		The National Agrarian Department, as the administrative organ for carrying out the land reform, established Agrarian Commissions in each of the country's 21 departments whose members were nominated by the national worker and peasant confederations among other bodies.
	www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu /public/english/employment/strat/publ/iddp5.htm (20695 words)

	Escuintla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It's also the capital of the department of Escuintla, which stretches from the volcanoes near Antigua and Lake Amatitlán to the steaming coastal plain.
		Physically, Escuintla is a dumpy place of wooden and cement-block house, hot at all times, with an oppressive humidity.
		There's no reason to tarry long in town, but all around one can appreciate the luxuriant tropical vegetation, tall palms, dense forests in shades of green, banana trees with giant leaves (big enough that they were once used as raincoats) and exotic flowers, Volcanoes and mountains tower above the city to the north.
	bobandann.guatemalamissions.com /AboutGuatemala/Escuintla.html (165 words)

	Foster Parents Plan - Children receiving help in Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Development: All schools in the Department of Escuintla are closed.
		We are coordinating to resume classes in shelters and community centers so that children living there can resume a normal routine and minimize the interruption to their education.
		Assessments are currently being conducted in the Departments of Escuintla and Santa Rosa.
	www.fosterparentsplan.ca /Foster/SituationUpdate/en/HTML/332_en.aspx (440 words)

	americas.org - Striking Teachers Take Airports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On February 24 members of the National Teachers Assembly (ANM) and of local campesino organizations began blocking the entrance to the Santa Elena International Airport in the northern department of Petén.
		In San Marcos department some 1,500 teachers occupied customs posts in El Carmen, Malacatán municipality, and in El Triunfo and Tecún Umán, Ayutla municipality, according to a local strike leader, Godofredo Mejía, who said some truck drivers helped by blocking the entrances.
		Hundreds of teachers blocked the entrance to Puerto Quetzal in Escuintla department, while many customs posts were shut down along the Mexican, Salvadoran and Honduran borders.
	www.americas.org /item_8250 (892 words)

	Gang-related prison riots kill at least 31 inmates \| LJWorld.com
		An Associated Press photographer saw 18 bodies, many riddled with bullet wounds, carried from El Hoyon prison, which was specifically built to hold gang members in Escuintla, 30 miles south of the capital.
		A guard and 61 inmates were injured at El Hoyon, and tattooed gang members bleeding from knife wounds were carried from the prison on stretchers.
		Escuintla Gov. Luis Munoz said the riot began with the explosion of two grenades.
	www2.ljworld.com /news/2005/aug/16/gangrelated_prison_riots/?nation_world (349 words)

	GUATEMALAN ECOTOURISM
		Warm and dry forests are found in the departments of Santa Rosa, Jutiapa, Izabal, El Petén, Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, Retalhuleu, Quetzaltenango and San Marcos.
		Lake Atitlán, which is volcanic in origin, is the main touristic attraction in the Department of Sololá;.
		In the Department of Escuintla, beautiful waterfalls add to the natural beauty of the caves at San Pedro Mártir.
	www.quetzalnet.com /Eco.html (2407 words)

	Guatemala: Parks
		Lake Atitlan, which is volcanic in origin, is the main tourist attraction in the Department of Solola.
		In the Department of Escuintla, beautiful waterfalls add to the natural beauty of the caves at San Pedro Martir.
		The humid soil of this department is due to the rain and the lakes which are prevalent here.
	www.travelvantage.com /gua_parks.html (1480 words)

	Guatemala 11.197 Friendly Settlement
		In 1990 they began legal proceedings to recoup the land occupied by the army; however, as of the date of the complaint, in 1993, the trial was still pending.
		In 1990, the Guatemalan Army used the Los Cimientos area to relocate 50 families from Chajul in a model village–a method used at the time by the armed forces to resettle internally displaced persons in order to be able to control their activities.
		This shall be affected using appropriate means of transport from the village of Batzulá Churrancho, Santa María Cunén municipality, Quiché department, to the San Vicente Osuna estate and its annex, the Las Delicias estate, located in Siquinalá municipality, Escuintla department.
	www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/2003eng/Guatemala.11197.htm (4063 words)

	Escuintla Department -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Escuintla Department -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Escuintla is a department in (A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; noted for low per capita income and illiteracy; politically unstable) Guatemala.
		The capital is the city of (additional info and facts about Escuintla) Escuintla.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Es/Escuintla_Department.htm (48 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » ODPC-WFP Emergency Situation Report on Latin America and the Caribbean No. 25
		Several communities in the Department of Escuintla have been affected by severe flooding caused by the overflowing of rivers, resulting in infrastructure damage and impassable roads and causing a number of families to be evacuated.
		According to Civil Defense, a total of 17 municipalities were affected in the Departments of Esteli, Nueva Segovia, Madriz, Leon, Chinandega, Granada, Northern Atlantic Region (RAAN), Matagalpa, Rio San Juan and Managua, affecting 393 families, 204 of whom were evacuated to temporary shelters.
		The Ministry of Agriculture reports that the heavy rains have delayed cultivation of crops in the Departments of Masaya and Rivas, while in Leon, Chinandega, Matagalpa, Chontales and Granada, crops of maize, beans, sorghum, peanuts and sugarcane have been destroyed or damaged.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64D7MQ?OpenDocument (960 words)

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		This species occurs in cloud forest and pine-oak forest and is known from the departments of Quiché and Huehuetenango at elevations of 12002500 m.
		DISTRIBUTION: The eastern slopes of the Montañas del Mico and the northern slopes of the eastern portion of the Sierra de las Minas in the Department of Izabal, Guatemala, at elevations of 591786 m.
		The ammended type-locality was suggested to be, in error, in the Department de Quezaltenango by Savage (1987:34).
	www.uta.edu /biology/campbell/guatemala/checklist.html (7329 words)

	Escuintla, Guatemala, Pictures
		Escuintla is a trade center in an agricultural area with rail connections to the capital and to Puerto San José.
		Escuintla is named after the ancient Maya city of Yxcuyntepeque (Iscuintepeque), believed to have been situated nearby.
		When I was a kid I went twice to a place named Safari Chapin where you can watch animals in a "free" enviroment and those where the times I visited Escuintla.
	www.greatestcities.com /Central_America/Guatemala/Escuintla_city.html (198 words)

	Escuintla Department - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Escuintla Department - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This Central America location article is a stub.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Escuintla Department contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Escuintla_Department (62 words)

	Prisoners injured in Guatemala prison riot - NDTV.com - News on Prisoners injured in Guatemala prison riot
		A police spokesman said at least one inmate had a gun and opened fire during the disturbance at the Canada prison work farm in Escuintla province yesterday, 70 kilometres south of the capital, Guatemala City.
		A subsequent search of the prison turned up no weapons, and it even was unclear if the weapon that had been fired was recovered.
		The director of an association of public defence lawyers said yesterday, she alerted government officials to the presence of grenades in several prisons days before Monday's violence broke out.
	www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Prisoners+injured+in+Guatemala+prison+riot&id=77639 (277 words)

	Guatemala: Secret detention of hors de combat and non-combatant prisoners
		During that period he states that he was held in various clandestine jails located in military bases in the departments of San Marcos and Quetzaltenango.
		Although in these cases the two combatants were able to identify the alleged unacknowledged detainees only by their pseudonyms, they did provide detailed information as to where and how each was taken into custody, and as to the place where they were allegedly being held in secret detention.
		"Baltazar" was captured by the armed forces on 28 February 1991 on the road from Taxisco to Escuintla and allegedly executed by the army for refusing to cooperate with the military.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/guatemala/document.do?id=A601F91B458298B7802569A600602F34 (1783 words)

	Untitled Document
		Conformed by the Departments of Chimaltenango, Sacatepéquez and Escuintla
		Creation of the Department: by Decree on November 12, 1839, after having been separated from Chimaltenango.
		Municipiums: Escuintla, Guanagazapa, Iztapa, La Democracia, La Gomera, Masagua, Nueva Concepción, Palín, San Jose, San Vicente Pacaya, Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, Siquinalá, Tiquisate.
	www.goathemayatravel.com /regiones5_in.htm (1527 words)

	Renseignements internationaux - Guatemala International Airport
		Three sites were proposed at this stage of the study, all of them located in the Southern Pacific coastal region of Escuintla.
		The pre-feasibility study was reported to be a donation from the Government of Japan.
		However, The Department of Commerce does not take responsibility for actions readers may take based on the information contained herein.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/fr/gr126677f.html (645 words)

	Second Record of the Mississippi Kite in Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		', Oklahoma, was shot near Escuintla, Department of Escuintla, south-central Guatemala on 29 October 1971; it recovered from its wounds and was presented to the Aurora Zoo of Guatemala City.
		Although Mississippi Kites were long thought to winter only as far south as Guatemala, their presence there has been documented by only one undated specimen collected (1861 or earlier) by Salvin near Coban, Vera Paz, central Guatemala (Blake 1949, Eisenmann 1963, Land 1970).
		Present address: Department of Biology, SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York 14063.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v094n01/p0168-p0169.html (840 words)

	News And Opinion
		The Justice Department took the unusual step yesterday of asking that a new judge be assigned to a nine-year-old lawsuit by American Indians seeking a century's worth of unpaid oil and natural gas royalties.
		ESCUINTLA, Guatemala, Aug. 15 -- At least 30 inmates were killed when rival Guatemalan gang members attacked one another with knives, firearms and grenades at prisons throughout the country, government officials said.
		ESCUINTLA, Guatemala -- At least 30 inmates were killed when rival Guatemalan gang members attacked one another with knives, firearms and grenades at prisons throughout the country, government officials said.
	www.bushwatch.org /archive2005/e-mail-20050816.htm (3011 words)

	JANM/INRP-Timeline-Mexico
		A major agreement in this treaty is the recognition of the Japanese sovereignty by Mexico, which made it possible for Japan to sign reciprocal treaties with other countries of the world.
		Both recommends the purchase of lands in Escuintla.
		Acquisition of 65,000 hectares located in Escuintla, Department of Soconusco, in the state of Chiapas.
	www.janm.org /projects/inrp/english/time_mexico.htm (732 words)

	GUATEMALA: Urgent Actions post-elections : IMC Maritimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On 10 November, following the announcement of local election results, supporters of rival party Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), reportedly instigated a demonstration outside the offices of the National Civil Police and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in Cantabal, in an attempt to force the head of the TSE to nullify the election result.
		Violent incidents reported in the course of the elections include the burning of thirty ballot boxes in the indigenous communities of El Quetzal, San Marcos Department and Cuyutenango in Suchitepequez Department.
		In Iztapa, Escuintla Department and Palencia, Guatemala Department, some would-be voters were prevented from voting and ballot boxes were attacked and destroyed.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /print.php?id=7036 (1267 words)

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