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    Lake Izabal (Spanish pronunciation: [isaˈβal]), also known as the Golfo Dulce, is the largest lake in Guatemala with a surface area of 589.6 km2 (145,700...
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    and Zacapa to the south. The Izabal Department surrounds Lake Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), which is Guatemala's largest lake (about 48 km long and 24 km...
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  • largest freshwater lake: Lake Izabal. The lake is an important breeding ground for endangered manatees. Local people rely on fish from the lake. The project...
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    Felipe de Lara fort guarding the entrance to Lake Izabal. The main cause of the drastic depopulation of Lake Izabal and the Motagua Delta was the constant slave...
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    Dulce River (Guatemala) (category Geography of the Izabal Department)
    in Guatemala, completely contained within the department of Izabal. It is part of a lake and river system that has become a popular cruising sailboat...
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  • Izabal may be: Izabal Department, one of the 22 departments of Guatemala Lake Izabal Izabal (town) Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Izabal Izabal...
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    Petén Department in Guatemala. It is the third largest lake in Guatemala, after Lake Izabal and Lake Atitlán. It is located around 16°59′0″N 89°48′0″W /...
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    the entrance to Lake Izabal in eastern Guatemala. Lake Izabal is connected with the Caribbean Sea via the Dulce River and El Golfete lake. The fort was...
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    Lake Izabal and came close to starvation before they captured a Maya boy who led them to safety. Cortés found a village on the shore of Lake Izabal,...
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  • kilometers long river flows eastwards through a deep valley and flows into Lake Izabal at 15°28′00″N 89°22′00″W / 15.46667°N 89.36667°W / 15.46667; -89.36667...
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    located on Bahia de Amatique. Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and is the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality...
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    Lake El Golfete is a long narrow lake in Guatemala. It lies at sea level and is fed by the Dulce River from Lake Izabal draining to the Amatique Bay in...
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    Pacific vertient, larger and deeper, such as the Polochic which drains in Lake Izabal, Río Dulce, Motagua and Sarstún that forms the boundary with Belize in...
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    These rivers include the Polochic and Dulce Rivers, which drain into Lake Izabal, the Motagua River, the Sarstún, which forms the boundary with Belize...
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    against the Spanish until 1697. Other large lakes include Lake Atitlán, Lake Izabal, Lake Güija, Lemoa and Lake Xolotlan. Almost all ecosystems are present...
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    Central America during the Holocene inferred from lacustrine sediments in Lake Izabal, eastern Guatemala (PhD Thesis). Missouri University of Science and Technology...
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    Santo Tomás de Castilla (category Populated places in the Izabal Department)
    Gálvez though it popularly retains its former name, is a port city in the Izabal Department, Guatemala. It lies at Amatique Bay off the Gulf of Honduras...
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  • village of Tenciz. With local guides they headed into the hills north of Lake Izabal, where their guides abandoned them to their fate. The expedition became...
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    Spanish settlements on Lake Izabal. 1684 27 April – 5 May: Dutch pirates or privateers raid Spanish settlements on Lake Izabal. 1685 start of January –...
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    of Solís and Pinzón to Lake Izabal The 1502 voyage by Christopher Columbus to Guanaja Maya settlements near Cozumel, Lake Izabal, and Guanaja are known...
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    include the Usumacinta River and its tributaries, the Sarstoon River, Lake Izabal, the Rio Dulce, the alluvial valley of the lower Motagua, and the Chamelecon...
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  • mountain range in eastern Guatemala. It is situated north of Lake Izabal, in the department of Izabal. The mountain range has a south-west to north-east orientation...
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    also set up Ferrocarril Verapaz, a railway which connected Cobán with Lake Izabal, operated from 1895 until 1963 and was a symbol for the wealth in this...
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    Qʼeqchiʼ (category Izabal Department)
    wider dispersal of Qʼeqchiʼ communities into other regions of Guatemala (Izabal, Petén, El Quiché), southern Belize (Toledo District), and smaller numbers...
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  • 40 CCNA Puerto Barrios Guatemala 0 7 May 1935 Ford Trimotor private Lake Izabal Guatemala 1 10 Oct 1936 NC14273 Douglas DC-2-118B Panagra Guatemala City...
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    village of Tenciz. With local guides they headed into the hills north of Lake Izabal, where their guides abandoned them to their fate. The expedition became...
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  • a mountain range in eastern Guatemala, extending 130 km west of the Lake Izabal. It is 15–30 km wide and bordered by the valleys of the rivers Polochic...
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    of Panama Cryptoheros spilurus (Günther, 1862) (Blue-eye cichlid) – Lake Izabal drainage in Guatemala C. panamenis is placed in the subgenus Panamius...
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    polluting agents of the lake there are the surrounding communities and the sewage of the Polochic River, as it flows into Lake Izabal. Unicellular algae feed...
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    to southern Mexico Rocio spinosissima (Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902) – Lake Izabal basin, Guatemala These have historically been placed in the genera Cichlasoma...
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