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Puerto Barrios
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Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Department
- Izabal
- Mayor
- Hugo Sarceño
- Municipality
- 1,190 km (460 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 638 m (2,093 ft)
- Highest elevation
- 1,276 m (4,186 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Density
- 84.5/km (219/sq mi)
- Urban
- 100,593
- Climate
- Af
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Official website
Municipalidad de Puerto Barrios - La Tierra de Dios
Municipalidad de Puerto Barrios- La Tierra de Dios
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Izabal Department
- Population
- 110846
- Area
- 1292
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Body of water
- Caribbean Sea
- Capital of
- Izabal Department
- Shares border with
- Honduras
- Official website
- www.munipuertobarrios.gob.gt
- Image
- Ciudad de Puerto Barrios.jpg
- Dialing code
- 502
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- Commons category
- Puerto Barrios
- postal code
- 18001
- inception
- 1895-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Puerto Barrios
- P12749
- Altai Republic
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Encyclopedic overview
Puerto Barrios ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾ.to ˈβa.rjos]) is a city in Guatemala, located within the Gulf of Honduras. The city is located on Bahia de Amatique. Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and is the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality.
It is Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port, together with its more modern twin port town just to the southwest, Santo Tomás de Castilla. As of the 2018 census, the population of Puerto Barrios was 100,593. Puerto Barrios is located 297 kilometers (185 mi) northeast of Guatemala City. It is the terminus of Highway CA9 which begins at the Pacific port city of Puerto San José and traverses the country through Guatemala City.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puerto Barrios” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.