Escuintla | |
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Depairtment | |
Escuintla | |
Coordinates: 14°17′52″N 90°47′13″W / 14.29778°N 90.78694°W | |
Kintra | ![]() |
Depairtment | Escuintla |
Caipital | Escuintla |
Municipalities | 13 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Departmental |
Area | |
• Depairtment | 4384 km2 (1,693 sq mi) |
Population (Census 2002)[1] | |
• Depairtment | 538,746 |
• 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.