ECONOMY Business etiquette Business manners are quite conservative and formal. Value is placed on punctuality. Appointments are recommended, business cards are common. Business hours: Mo-Fr 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Sa 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Economy German-Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce and Industry 6 Avenida 20-25, Zona 10, Edif. Plaza Maritima, 3-seater. Nivel, 01010 Guatemala Tel: (023) 33 60 […]
GENERAL Official name of the state Republic of Guatemala. Capital Guatemala City. Geography According to a2zgov, Guatemala is located in Central America and borders Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and El Salvador and Honduras to the southeast. The landscape is predominantly mountainous and heavily forested. There is […]
Guatemala is located in Central America and borders Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Guatemala has two coasts, to the east is a narrow coast to the Caribbean Sea and to the west is the Pacific coast. Guatemala claims parts of Belize, and there are Guatemalan settlements in that area. Capital: Guatemala City Biggest city: […]
Literature Guatemala’s first great poet, Rafael LandÃvar, wrote in Latin. He was one of the Jesuits expelled from the Spanish colonies in 1767. In Italy, LandÃvar wrote on the hexameter “Rusticatio mexicana” (‘Mexican Country Life’, 1st edition with ten songs in 1781, 2nd edition with fifteen songs in 1782), a poem cycle about the industriousness […]
