Guatemala is the Central American country of Mayan ruins like Tikal. Travel to Guatemala, born in Guatemala, the highlands of Guatemala.
Tikal was one of the great Maya cities and its temples still stand above the forest canopy. More than twenty Mayan languages are spoken in Guatemala today, alongside Spanish, and the country sits on a chain of volcanoes, several of them active.
1nounguatemalaA Central American country.
“We climbed a volcano in Guatemala and watched the sun rise over the lakes.”
guatemala is a country.
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Cuauhtēmallān
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Guatemala
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Guatemala
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Guatemala Spanish Guatemala (originally the name of Iximche, the location of Guatemala's first capital), from nci Cuauhtēmallān, from cuauhtēmalli (“woodpile”) + -tlān (“place”).
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