Escuintla Depairtment

Escuintla
Depairtment
Banner o Escuintla
Banner
Official seal of Escuintla
Seal
Escuintla
Escuintla
Coordinates: 14°17′52″N 90°47′13″W / 14.29778°N 90.78694°W / 14.29778; -90.78694
Kintra Guatemala
DepairtmentEscuintla
CaipitalEscuintla
Municipalities13
Govrenment
 • TeepDepartmental
Area
 • Depairtment4384 km2 (1,693 sq mi)
Population
 (Census 2002)[1]
 • Depairtment538,746
 • Urban
256,972
 • Ethnicities
Ladino Poqomam
 • Releegions
Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism
Time zone-6

Escuintla is ane o the 22 depairtments o Guatemala. Its caipital is the ceety o Escuintla. The depairtment o Escuintla covers an aurie o 4,384 km² an is situatit in the coastal lawland region tae the Sooth o Guatemala Ceety, bordered bi the Paceefic Ocean. Escuintla produces about 43 percent of gross domestic product o Guatemala. It is statistically the depairtment, province or region in Mesoamerica wi the lawest unemployment an extreme poverty.

  1. "XI Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002)". Insituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). 2002. Archived frae the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 4 Mey 2012.

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