San AgustÃn Acasaguastlán
San Agustín Acasaguastlán on the map of Guatemala
San Agustín Acasaguastlán (formerly San Agustín de la Real Corona ) is an approximately 8000 inhabitants small town and a municipality in the department of El Progreso in Guatemala. It is located about 90 km northeast of Guatemala City and about 20 km northeast of Guastatoya in the valley of the Río Motagua to 297 m altitude. A few kilometers south of the town runs along the Motagua the important Atlantic Highway CA 9
The 358 km ² large municipality extends between the Sierra de las Minas in the north and the valley of the Río Motagua in the south. It has a total of about 36,000 inhabitants, of whom lives the majority in smaller rural settlements and villages, including El Rancho ( which branches off from the Atlantic Highway National Road 17 in the northern Verapaz region), Tulumajillo ( on the N 17 & CA 14) Magdalena, Puerta de Golpe, El Cimiento, Montaña La Juana, Las Delicias and El Aguacate.
Adjacent Municipalities are San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán in the east, and El Jícaro Guastatoya in the south and in the west Morazán. To the north it borders the departments of Baja Verapaz and Alta Verapaz.
In neighboring San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán there was the religious center Acasaguastlán. It had a great significance for the Maya ethnic groups that belonged politically to Copan and Quiriguá (probably Pocomam ). During the colonial period was the environment of Acasaguastlán an administrative district of the same name ( corregimiento ), then emerged from the two municipios of San Cristóbal and San Agustín Acasaguastlán Acasaguastlán. In both places worth seeing in the baroque colonial churches remember to Spanish rule. Both were heavily damaged by the earthquake of 1976, but prepared again.
On the territory of the Municipalities of San Agustín Acasaguastlán there are the two small Mayan ruins Guaytán and San José Apantes. San Agustín Acasaguastlán is located in a very dry area at Río Hato (also called " Lato River "). Thanks to systematic irrigation of the site for its agricultural products is well known and is also called " vegetable garden ".