Pajapita
Sign in to savePajapita is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala.It was created on 31 May 1920, after the station of Vado Ancho on the Panamerican Railroad of Guatemala was built. Due to its privileged location on the way from Guatemala to Mexico, Pajapita enjoyed considerable development while the Guatemalan railways were owned by International Railways of Central America (IRCA), an American company that belonged to the United Fruit Company. However, with the decline of the rail that followed the constructions of major highways in the country the importance of the town of Vado An
Key facts
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- Pajapita
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- Municipality
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- 300px
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- Guatemala
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- bottom
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- Location in Guatemala
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- 25px Guatemala
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- Department
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- 25px San Marcos
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- Mayor (2016-2020)
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- Walter López
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- UCN
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- 2018 census
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- 21725
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- auto
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- 6817
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- San Marcos Department
- Population
- 23171
- Area
- 84
- Elevation
- 75
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Nuevo Progreso
- Patron saint
- Immaculate Conception of Mary
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- public holiday
- Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- postal code
- 12022
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Transport
- Panamerican Railroad of Guatemala
- Climate
- Geographic location
- See also
- Notes and references
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Pajapita is a town and municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala.It was created on 31 May 1920, after the station of Vado Ancho on the Panamerican Railroad of Guatemala was built. Due to its privileged location on the way from Guatemala to Mexico, Pajapita enjoyed considerable development while the Guatemalan railways were owned by International Railways of Central America (IRCA), an American company that belonged to the United Fruit Company. However, with the decline of the rail that followed the constructions of major highways in the country the importance of the town of Vado Ancho diminished, to the point that in the early 21st century it was completely abandoned.
Pajapita is called also "Land of the Almond trees".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pajapita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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