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Quetzaltenango

American  
[ket-sahl-te-nahng-gaw] / kɛtˌsɑl tɛˈnɑŋ gɔ /
Or Quezaltenango

noun

  1. a city in SW Guatemala: earthquake 1902.


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At the end of the forum, Yolanda Nish, originally from Quetzaltenango, felt that the three candidates largely echoed one another.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023

Amilcar Rivas, Quetzaltenango city manager, said that event organizers did not have a grip on security and crowd control.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Miriam López has been waiting for six hours outside a shelter for unaccompanied minor deportees in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second biggest city, when officials inside the building yell: "38".

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021

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

S La Unión, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, contained three embryos that were 7 mm. in crown-rump length, and KU 65245, taken on December 15, 1954, 1 mi.

From Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua by Anderson, Sydney

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