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Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Puerto Barrios
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 9,038 km (3,490 sq mi)
- Water
- 590 km (230 sq mi)
- Density
- 45/km (120/sq mi)
- Urban
- 167,653
- Ethnicities
- Ladino , Q'eqchi' , Garífuna , Afro-Caribbean
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism , Evangelicalism , Maya
- Time zone
- UTC-6
- Iso 3166 code
- GT-IZ
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Puerto Barrios
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 408688
- Area
- 9038
- Shares border with
- Alta Verapaz Department
- Image
- GT Quirigua StelaE.JPG
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- Commons category
- Izabal Department
- postal code
- 18000
- topic's main category
- Category:Izabal Department
- native label
- Izabal
- language used
- Garifuna
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Izabal ( Spanish pronunciation: [isaˈβal]) is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. Its coastal areas form part of the homeland of the Garifuna people.
Izabal is bordered to the north by Belize, to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, and by the Guatemalan departments of Petén to the northwest, Alta Verapaz to the west, and Zacapa to the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Izabal Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.