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Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Escuintla
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 4,384 km (1,693 sq mi)
- Density
- 167.2/km (433.2/sq mi)
- Urban
- 448,531
- Ethnicities
- Ladino Poqomam
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism
- Time zone
- UTC-6
- Iso 3166 code
- GT-ES
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Escuintla ( Spanish pronunciation: [esˈkwintla]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. The capital of the department is the city of Escuintla. Escuintla covers an area of 4,384 km and is situated in the coastal lowland region, directly south of Guatemala City, and bordered by the Pacific Ocean. Escuintla produces about 43 percent of gross domestic product of Guatemala.
Municipales
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Escuintla Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.