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Quetzaltenango Department

Index Quetzaltenango Department

Quetzaltenango is a department in the western highlands of Guatemala. [1]

117 relations: Almolonga, Almolonga, Quetzaltenango, Apple, Attalea (palm), Beetroot, Biome, Cabbage, Cabricán, Cajolá, Cantel, Guatemala, Cardamom, Carrot, Catholic Church, Central America, Cerro Quiac, Chicabal Lake, Chojolom, Classical music, Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango, Coffee, Colomba, Concepción Chiquirichapa, Conquistador, Cotton, Cypress, Department (country subdivision), Departments of Guatemala, Earthquake, El Palmar, Quetzaltenango, Enterolobium cyclocarpum, Epicenter, Evangelicalism, Flores Costa Cuca, Génova, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Guatemalan Highlands, Guatemalan Spanish, Huehuetenango Department, Huitán, Jacobo Árbenz, Jesús Castillo (composer), K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj, K'iche' language, K'iche' people, La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango, Ladino people, Lent, Life expectancy, Los Altos, Central America, Luna de Xelajú, ..., Macadamia, Maize, Mam language, Mam people, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Maya peoples, Maya religion, Mayan languages, Mesoamerican chronology, Mexico, Municipalities of Guatemala, Municipality, Nahuatl, Olintepeque, Onion, Otto Pérez Molina, Pacific Ocean, Paco Pérez, Palestina de Los Altos, Peach, Pedro de Alvarado, Penn State University Press, Phaseolus vulgaris, Pine, Platanus racemosa, Plum, Popol Vuh, Potato, Prensa Libre, President of Guatemala, Q'umarkaj, Quetzaltenango, Radish, Rafael Carrera, Resplendent quetzal, Retalhuleu Department, Richter magnitude scale, Salcajá, Samalá River, San Carlos Sija, San Francisco La Unión, San Juan Ostuncalco, San Marcos Department, San Martín Sacatepéquez, San Mateo, Quetzaltenango, San Miguel Sigüilá, Santa María (volcano), Sibilia, Quetzaltenango, Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Sololá Department, Spa, Spanish conquest of Guatemala, Spanish language, Stanford University Press, Suchitepéquez Department, Sugarcane, Tecun Uman, Totonicapán Department, Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, Turnip, Vicia faba, Volcán Santo Tomás, Volcán Siete Orejas, Waltz, Wheat, Zunil. Expand index (67 more) »

Almolonga

The Almolonga volcano, usually called "Cerro Quemado" (Burned Mountain) is an andesitic stratovolcano in the south-western department of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala.

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Almolonga, Quetzaltenango

Almolonga is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala, located on the road between Ciudad de Quetzaltenango (Quetzaltenango City) and Zunil.

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Apple

An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus pumila).

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Attalea (palm)

Attalea is a large genus of palms native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America.

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Beetroot

The beetroot is the taproot portion of the beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet, also table beet, garden beet, red beet, or golden beet.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Cabbage

Cabbage or headed cabbage (comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea) is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.

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Cabricán

Cabricán is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Cajolá

Cajolá is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Cantel, Guatemala

Cantel is a small municipality in the Quetzaltenango Department in Guatemala.

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Cardamom

Cardamom, sometimes cardamon or cardamum, is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the family Zingiberaceae.

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Carrot

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Cerro Quiac

Cerro Quiac (K'iaq and K'iaqb'al in the K'iche language) is a small Maya archaeological site located at an altitude of, overlooking the Plains of Urbina in the Guatemalan Highlands.

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Chicabal Lake

Chicabal Lake is a Guatemalan lake sacred to the Mam Mayan people.

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Chojolom

Chojolom is a small Maya archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango

Coatepeque is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of berries from the Coffea plant.

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Colomba

Colomba is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala with 212 km2 surface at about 1011 m altitude.

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Concepción Chiquirichapa

Concepción Chiquirichapa is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Quetzaltenango in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, 14 kilometers west of the departmental capital of Quetzaltenango, and 214 kilometers west of the capital Guatemala City.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Cypress

Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae.

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Department (country subdivision)

A department is an administrative or political subdivision in many countries.

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Departments of Guatemala

Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) which are in turn divided into 340 municipalities.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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El Palmar, Quetzaltenango

El Palmar is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala El Palmar is mostly an agricultural municipality, with coffee being one of its main products.

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Enterolobium cyclocarpum

Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as guanacaste, caro caro, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil (Roraima) and Venezuela.

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Epicenter

The epicenter, epicentre or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Flores Costa Cuca

Flores Costa Cuca is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Génova, Quetzaltenango

Génova is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

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Guatemalan Highlands

The Guatemalan Highlands is an upland region in southern Guatemala, lying between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to the south and the Petén lowlands to the north.

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Guatemalan Spanish

Guatemalan Spanish (Español guatemalteco) is the national variant of Spanish spoken in the Central American country of Guatemala.

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Huehuetenango Department

Huehuetenango is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Huitán

Huitán is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala, situated on 16 km2 at 2600 m altitude, North-West from Quetzaltenango.

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Jacobo Árbenz

Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (September 14, 1913 – January 27, 1971), nicknamed The Big Blonde (Guatemalan El Chelón) or The Swiss (El Suizo) for his Swiss origins, was a Guatemalan military officer who was the second democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.

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Jesús Castillo (composer)

Jesús Castillo Monterroso (1877-1946) was a Guatemalan composer.

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K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj

The K'iche' kingdom of Q'umarkaj was a state in the highlands of modern-day Guatemala which was founded by the K'iche' (Quiché) Maya in the thirteenth century, and which expanded through the fifteenth century until it was conquered by Spanish and Nahua forces led by Pedro de Alvarado in 1524.

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K'iche' language

K’iche’ (also Qatzijob'al "our language" to its speakers), or Quiché, is a Maya language of Guatemala, spoken by the K'iche' people of the central highlands.

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K'iche' people

K'iche' (pronounced; previous Spanish spelling: Quiché) are indigenous peoples of the Americas and are one of the Maya peoples.

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La Esperanza, Quetzaltenango

La Esperanza is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Ladino people

The Ladino people are a mix of mestizo or hispanicized peoples en el Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE) in Latin America, principally in Central America.

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Lent

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday.

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Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.

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Los Altos, Central America

Los Altos (Spanish for "the highlands" or "the heights") was the sixth state of the Federal Republic of Central America, and a short-lived independent republic.

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Luna de Xelajú

Luna de Xelajú is a very popular Guatemalan waltz composed by Paco Pérez in 1944.

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Macadamia

Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia, and constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Mam language

Mam is a Mayan language with half a million speakers in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, and 10,000 in the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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Mam people

The Mam are an indigenous people in the western highlands of Guatemala and in south-western Mexico who speak the Mam language.

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Manuel Estrada Cabrera

Manuel José Estrada Cabrera (21 November 1857 – 24 September 1924) was President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920.

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Maya peoples

The Maya peoples are a large group of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

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Maya religion

The traditional Maya religion of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and the Tabasco, Chiapas, and Yucatán regions of Mexico is a southeastern variant of Mesoamerican religion.

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Mayan languages

The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use Mayan when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language.

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Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation–3500 BCE), the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2000 BCE–250 CE), the Classic (250–900CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE), Colonial (1521–1821), and Postcolonial (1821–present).

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Municipalities of Guatemala

The departments of Guatemala are divided into 340 municipalities or municipios.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Nahuatl

Nahuatl (The Classical Nahuatl word nāhuatl (noun stem nāhua, + absolutive -tl) is thought to mean "a good, clear sound" This language name has several spellings, among them náhuatl (the standard spelling in the Spanish language),() Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl. In a back formation from the name of the language, the ethnic group of Nahuatl speakers are called Nahua.), known historically as Aztec, is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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Olintepeque

Olintepeque is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala, not far from the city of Quetzaltenango.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Otto Pérez Molina

Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born 1 December 1950) is a Guatemalan politician and retired military officer, who was President of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paco Pérez

Francisco "Paco" Pérez Muñoz (1917-1951) was a singer, composer, and guitarist from Guatemala.

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Palestina de Los Altos

Palestina de Los Altos is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Peach

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated.

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Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, ca. 1485 – Guadalajara, New Spain, 4 July 1541) was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala.

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Penn State University Press

Penn State University Press, also called The Pennsylvania State University Press, was established in 1956 and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals.

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Phaseolus vulgaris

Phaseolus vulgaris, also known as the common bean and green bean, among other names, is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seeds or unripe fruit (both commonly called beans).

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Platanus racemosa

Platanus racemosa is a species of plane tree known by several common names, including California sycamore, western sycamore, California plane tree, and in North American Spanish aliso.

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Plum

A plum is a fruit of the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (peaches, cherries, bird cherries, etc.) in the shoots having terminal bud and solitary side buds (not clustered), the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side and a smooth stone (or pit).

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Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh (also Popol Wuj) is a cultural narrative that recounts the mythology and history of the K'iche' people who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands northwest of present-day Guatemala City.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Prensa Libre

Prensa Libre is a Guatemalan newspaper published in Guatemala City by Prensa Libre, S.A. and distributed nationwide.

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President of Guatemala

The President of Guatemala (Presidente de Guatemala) officially known as the President of the Republic of Guatemala (Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term.

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Q'umarkaj

Q'umarkaj, (K'iche') (sometimes rendered as Gumarkaaj, Gumarcaj, Cumarcaj or Kumarcaaj) is an archaeological site in the southwest of the El Quiché department of Guatemala.

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Quetzaltenango

Quetzaltenango, also known by its Maya name, Xelajú or Xela, is the second largest city of Guatemala.

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Radish

The radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus) is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre-Roman times.

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Rafael Carrera

José Rafael Carrera Turcios (24 October 1814 – 14 April 1865) was the president of Guatemala from 1844 to 1848 and from 1851 until his death in 1865, after being appointed President for Life in 1854.

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Resplendent quetzal

The resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) is a bird in the trogon family.

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Retalhuleu Department

Retalhuleu is a department located in the south-west of Guatemala, extending from the mountains to the Pacific Ocean coast.

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Richter magnitude scale

The so-called Richter magnitude scale – more accurately, Richter's magnitude scale, or just Richter magnitude – for measuring the strength ("size") of earthquakes refers to the original "magnitude scale" developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, and later revised and renamed the Local magnitude scale, denoted as "ML" or "ML".

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Salcajá

Salcajá is a municipality in Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Samalá River

The Samalá is a river in southwestern Guatemala.

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San Carlos Sija

San Carlos Sija is a municipality in Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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San Francisco La Unión

San Francisco La Unión is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala, known for its large market.

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San Juan Ostuncalco

Ostuncalco, full name San Juan Ostuncalco, is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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San Marcos Department

San Marcos is a department in northwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean and along the western Guatemala-Mexico border.

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San Martín Sacatepéquez

San Martín Sacatepéquez is one of 24 municipalities in the department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

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San Mateo, Quetzaltenango

San Mateo is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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San Miguel Sigüilá

San Miguel Sigüilá is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Santa María (volcano)

Santa María Volcano is a large active volcano in the western highlands of Guatemala, in the Quetzaltenango Department near the city of Quetzaltenango.

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Sibilia, Quetzaltenango

Sibilia is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.

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Sierra Madre de Chiapas

The Sierra Madre de Chiapas (as known in Mexico, with regional names in other countries) is a major mountain range in Central America.

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Sololá Department

Sololá is a department in the west of Guatemala.

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Spa

A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths.

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Spanish conquest of Guatemala

The Spanish conquest of Guatemala was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, in which Spanish colonisers gradually incorporated the territory that became the modern country of Guatemala into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Stanford University Press

The Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Suchitepéquez Department

Suchitepéquez is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tecun Uman

Tecun UmanAlternate transliterations include Tecún Umán, Tecúm Umán, Tecúm Umam, Tekun Umam, etc.

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Totonicapán Department

Totonicapán is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests are a tropical forest biome.

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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forests, are a tropical and subtropical forest biome, sometimes referred to as jungle.

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Turnip

The turnip or white turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa) is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot.

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Vicia faba

Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, field bean, bell bean, or tic bean, is a species of flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae.

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Volcán Santo Tomás

Volcán Santo Tomás is a stratovolcano in southern Guatemala.

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Volcán Siete Orejas

Volcán Siete Orejas (Mam: Wuq Xinkan) is a stratovolcano in Guatemala located within the Quetzaltenango Department, in the municipalities of Quetzaltenango, Concepción Chiquirichapa, La Esperanza, and San Martin Sacatepequez.

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Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in time, performed primarily in closed position.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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Zunil

Zunil is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala with a surface area of.

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Quetzaltenango (department), Quetzaltenango department.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzaltenango_Department

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