Quetzaltenango
Americannoun
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Guatemala's President Bernardo Arévalo said the country's emergency management agency had been deployed in response to a magnitude 5.6 earthquake with its epicenter in Quetzaltenango.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Valiente was police chief in the Guatemalan city of Quetzaltenango in the 1980s during the country’s more than three-decade civil war.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
In Quetzaltenango, a four-hour drive from Guatemala City, we visited this new government care initiative, called Nidia Martínez, and were disappointed to find it was another institution.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2018
Times staff photographer Michael Robinson Chavez in El Carmen and special correspondent Anna Bevan in Quetzaltenango contributed to this report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
Legend affirms that in the first battles with the Spaniards on the plateau of Quetzaltenango the naguals of the Indian chiefs fought in the form of serpents.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
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