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Escuintla

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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the capital of the department of Escuintla, Guatemala; on the southern slope of the Sierra Madre, 45 m. S.W. of Guatemala city. Pop. (1905) about 12, 000. Escuintla is locally celebrated for its hot mineral springs. It is the commercial centre of a fertile district, which produces coffee, canesugar and cocoa; it has also a brisk transit trade in most of the products of Guatemala, owing to its position on the interoceanic railway between Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic and San Jose (30 m. S.) on the Pacific. A branch railway which goes westward to San Augustin meets this line at Escuintla.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Escuintla'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​e/escuintla.html. 1910.
 
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