Ruins of Guatemala

Pre-Columbian Ruins of Guatemala

 

Guatemala - Tikal

 

Tikal is a Mayan city located in the department of Petén.

The current territory of Guatemala was part of Mesoamerica, one of the pre-Columbian regions with the greatest cultural and demographic fertility on the continent, and one of the cradles of human civilization.

In particular, the Olmec (1500 BC - 500 BC) and Maya (8000 BC-1697 AD) cultures prospered, of which numerous archaeological niches and buildings remain in Guatemala, such as Tikal, an entire Mayan city located in the department of Petén, or Uaxactún, in the same region, a city whose splendor took place around 900 AD 

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History of Guatemala

 

Guatemala

 

In 1944 Guatemala began a modernization process called the "Golden Age".

The history of Guatemala begins with the Spanish invasion, once the Mexica Empire and its neighboring cultures were defeated and absorbed by the Kingdom of Spain, creating the first settlement in the territory of present-day Guatemala in 1524, called Santiago de Guatemala.

 

During this colonial period, the Captaincy General of Guatemala was attached to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, with capital in Mexico City.

 

Independence from Spain took place in the 19th century and Guatemala joined the First Mexican Empire that replaced the Viceroyalty, but which was extremely brief and from which Guatemala and the rest of Central America would separate in 1823, thus forming the United Provinces of the Center of America, later called the Federal Republic of Central America.

 

This was followed, as in many young American republics, by an internal struggle between liberals and conservatives to define the fate of power, which resulted in totalitarian governments and armed insurrections.

 

Finally, in 1944, Guatemala emerged from the dictatorship of General Ubico Castañeda and began a process of modernization often called Guatemala's "Golden Age", until tensions between pro-North American and communist interests led to a confrontation between guerrillas from armed insurrection and counterrevolutionary military governments, faced in a Civil War. Peace and democracy would return in 1987.

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