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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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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

“We are the ones who are least taken into account,” said Alba Rojas, a clothing designer originally from Quetzaltenango who settled in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and voted in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 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

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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