Izabal Depairtment

Izabal is ane o the 22 depairtments o Guatemala. Its coastal auries form pairt o the hameland o the Garifuna fowk.

Izabal
Depairtment
Izabal
Coordinates: 15°44′0″N 88°36′0″W
Kintra	Guatemala
Depairtment	Izabal
Capital	Puerto Barrios
Municipalities	5
Govrenment
• Teep	Depairtmental
Area
• Depairtment	9038 km2 (3,490 sq mi)
• Water	590 km2 (230 sq mi)
Population  (Census 2002)
• Depairtment	314,306
• Urban	90,508
• Ethnicities	Ladino Q'eqchi' Garífuna Afro-Caribbean
• Releegions	Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya
Time zone	-6

Izabal is bordered tae the north bi Belize, tae the northeast bi the Guwf o Honduras, an tae the east bi Honduras, an bi the Guatemalan depairtments o Petén to the northwast, Alta Verapaz tae the wast, an Zacapa tae the sooth.

The depairtment o Izabal surroonds Lago Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), Guatemala's lairgest lake (about 48 km lang an 24 km wide, wi an aurie o aboot 590 km²). The Spainyie Colonial fort o San Felipe, nou a Guatemalan naitional monument, owerleuks the point whare the lake flows intae the Río Dulce.

The sma toun o Izabal is on the sooth shore o the lake; afore the construction o the ports of Livingston an Puerto Barrios in the 19t century this was Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port an wis the oreeginal seat o Izabal depairtment; nouadays, housomeivver, Izabal toun is a remote veelage that gets little traffic.

Frae the aurie aroond Lake Izabal, the Depairtment o Izabal stretches alang the Río Dulce tae the coast o the Caribbean Sea.

The depairtment o Izabal includes the ports o Puerto Barrios (the depairtmental seat), Santo Tomás de Castilla, Livingston an Guatemala's free trade zone Zolic. Izabal includes the Pre-Columbie Maya ruins o Quirigua an aw.

Municipalities

1. El Estor
2. Livingston
3. Los Amates
4. Morales
5. Puerto Barrios

Freemit airtins

• Interactive department map
• Izabal, Green Caribbean Archived 2009-07-05 at the Wayback Machine