Guatemala country guide Reviewed 23 October 2026 MAPS 22 departments, 24 settlement centres, 8 lakes/rivers/coastal waters. Build offline with Shapely 2: python3 scripts/build-guatemala-maps.py Natural Earth 1:10m, public domain: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/ Snapshot ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19: https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/tree/ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19/geojson Source layers: ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces, ne_10m_admin_0_countries, ne_10m_lakes, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines, ne_10m_rivers_north_america. The selected snapshots are saved in scripts/guatemala-*-source.geojson. GT-JU through GT-TO legacy source codes are mapped to numeric GT-01–GT-22 department identifiers. Quetzaltenango spelling replaces the source's Quezaltenango. Department reference: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:GT Lake Atitlán and Lake Petén Itzá: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5781818 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1919447 Retrieved through Nominatim on 23 October 2026; simplified at 0.00012 degrees, with topology preserved. Adapted data is available in guatemala-waters.geojson and the accompanying source snapshot under ODbL 1.0; Natural Earth inputs remain public domain. City points are curated representative centres; all 22 departmental capitals are included, plus Panajachel and Livingston. Flores is pinned on its island. Coastal/generalised boundaries allow a small tolerance for city membership. The Motagua and Usumacinta use Natural Earth centreline geometry near Guatemala. The Río Dulce target shows only the lower gorge near Livingston, from the supplementary North American river layer. It is not a complete river course. Pacific and Caribbean targets are curated learning zones with context land removed with a 0.006-degree coastal buffer to keep settlement centres on land. They are not maritime boundaries. Lakes do not depict current levels. These maps are educational references, not navigation or territorial claims. READING AND QUIZ REVIEW https://www.prensa.gob.gt/comunicado/la-prevencion-tambien-protege-nuestros-lagos https://www.sicultura.gob.gt/directory-directorio_c/listing/volcan-tajumulco/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/GT/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/64/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/65/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/149/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1663/ https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/lac/guatemala-peace-agreements-1996 https://history.state.gov/countries/guatemala https://noticias.mcd.gob.gt/2026/02/21/guatemala-conmemora-el-dia-internacional-de-la-lengua-materna/ https://www.maga.gob.gt/presentan-mapa-de-idiomas-nacionales-de-guatemala/ https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/language-dance-and-music-of-the-garifuna-00001 https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/holy-week-in-guatemala-01854 https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/technique-of-making-the-giant-kites-of-santiago-sacatepequez-and-sumpango-guatemala-01991 https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/652126 https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/country/guatemala https://www.banguat.gob.gt/page/la-legislacion-sobre-billetes-y-monedas-1 https://www.congreso.gob.gt/marco_legal https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Guatemala_1993 https://conap.gob.gt/reserva-de-la-biosfera-maya-tesoro-natural-y-cultural/ https://culturaguate.gob.gt/kaq-ik/ https://ceceg.usac.edu.gt/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/11.pdf https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1992/tum/facts/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1967/asturias/facts/ https://censo2018.ine.gob.gt/archivos/Infografias.pdf https://guatemala.gob.gt/guatemala-tiene-14-9-millones-de-habitantes-segun-censo-2018/ Existing local photographs retain the author, licence and Commons source URL in src/lib/north-american-facts-heroes.json (GT). Lake Atitlán is the banner. Ten topics share reading between the guide and facts course. The Spanish course is general Spanish, not a dedicated Guatemalan dialect or Indigenous-language course. 25 read-time quiz corrections preserve stored IDs and progress. The 80-question seed fixture supports checking correction keys without database changes. Avoid undated export rankings, population guesses and the false claim that Lake Izabal is the largest lake in Central America.