Everything about Izabal Department totally explained
Izabal 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 north east by the
Gulf of Honduras, and to the east by
Honduras, and by the Guatemalan departments of
Petén to the north west,
Alta Verapaz to the west, and
Zacapa to the south.
The department of Izabal surrounds
Lago Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), Guatemala's largest lake (about 48 km long and 24 km wide, with an area of about 590 km²). The
Spanish Colonial fort of San Felipe, now a Guatemalan national monument, overlooks the point where the lake flows into the
Río Dulce.
The small town of
Izabal is on the south shore of the lake; before the construction of the ports of
Livingston and
Puerto Barrios in the
19th century this was Guatemala's main
Caribbean Sea port and was the original seat of Izabal department; nowadays, however, Izabal town is a remote village that gets little traffic.
From the area around Lake Izabal, the Department of Izabal stretches along the Río Dulce to the coast of the
Caribbean Sea.
The department of Izabal includes the ports of
Puerto Barrios (the departmental seat), Santo Tomás de Castilla and
Livingston. Izabal also includes the
Pre-Columbian Maya ruins of
Quirigua.
Municipalities
- El Estor
- Livingston
- Los Amates
- Morales
- Puerto Barrios
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