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Guatemala City

noun

  1. the capital of Guatemala, in the southeast: founded in 1776 to replace the former capital, Antigua Guatemala, after an earthquake; university (1676). Pop: 982 000 (2005 est)


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Growing up in Guatemala City in the 1980s, I lived in a bubble.

He fled Guatemala City, he tells The Daily Beast, after the notorious M18 gang tried to recruit him when he played soccer.

The 2007 and 2010 sinkholes in Guatemala City were 330 feet and 30 stories deep, respectively.

He spent 21 years in private practice and as a professor at Rafael Landivar Law School in Guatemala City.

Rosenberg, a 47-year-old father of four, was gunned down on Sunday while he rode a bike near his home in Guatemala City.

During the two hundred and fifty years following the Conquest the country had three capitals in turn, all named Guatemala City.

The cities are modern; Guatemala City has tree-planted avenues, a beautiful plaza, electric lights, schools and churches.

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