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Izabal Department Departmento de Izabal
Department of Guatemala
Counterclockwise from top: San Felipe Castle, cruise ship in the port city of Puerto Barrios, Livingston, Rio Dulce, Quirigua UNESCO World Heritage Site & 830 meter long bridge of Rio Dulce
FlagCoat of arms
Izabal and its neighbors
Coordinates: 15°44′0″N 88°36′0″W / 15.73333°N 88.60000°W / 15.73333; -88.60000
Country	Guatemala
Capital	Puerto Barrios
Municipalities	5
Government
• Type	Departmental
Area
• Department of Guatemala	9,038 km (3,490 sq mi)
• Water	590 km (230 sq mi)
Population
• Department of Guatemala	408,688
• Density	45/km (120/sq mi)
• Urban	167,653
• Ethnicities	Ladino Q'eqchi' Garífuna Afro-Caribbean
• Religions	Roman Catholicism Evangelicalism Maya
Time zone	UTC-6
ISO 3166 code	GT-IZ

Izabal (Spanish pronunciation: [isaˈβal]) 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 northeast by the Gulf of Honduras, to the east by Honduras, and by the Guatemalan departments of Petén to the northwest, Alta Verapaz to the west, and Zacapa to the south.

The Izabal Department surrounds Lake Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), which is Guatemala's largest lake (about 48 km long and 24 km wide, with an area of about 590 km). 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, Livingston and Guatemala's free trade zone Zolic. Izabal also includes the Pre-Columbian Maya ruins of Quirigua.

Municipalities

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

See also

• Guatemala portal
• Geography portal
• Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
• EXMIBAL
• Franja Transversal del Norte
• Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán
• José María Orellana
• Puerto Barrios
• Quiriguá
• Rafael Carrera
• Santo Tomás de Castilla
• United Fruit Company

References

1. • In Guatemala, to the north, Petén, to the west, Alta Verapaz, to the south, Zacapa; in Honduras, to the south, Copán, to the southeast, Santa Bárbara, to the east, Cortés department. In the Caribbean Sea, to the northeast, Amatique Bay in the Gulf of Honduras; and in Belize to the north, Toledo.

1. Citypopulation.de Population of departments in Guatemala

External links

• Media related to Izabal Department at Wikimedia Commons
• Interactive department map
• Izabal, Green Caribbean

v t e Places adjacent to Izabal Department
Petén Department  Belize Gulf of Honduras Alta Verapaz Department Izabal  Honduras Zacapa Department

v t e Izabal Department
Capital: Puerto Barrios
Municipalities	El Estor Livingston Los Amates Morales Puerto Barrios

v t e Departments of Guatemala
Alta Verapaz Baja Verapaz Chimaltenango Chiquimula El Progreso Escuintla Guatemala Huehuetenango Izabal Jalapa Jutiapa Petén Quetzaltenango Quiché Retalhuleu Sacatepéquez San Marcos Santa Rosa Sololá Suchitepéquez Totonicapán Zacapa

v t e Franja Transversal del Norte
Departments in the region	Huehuetenango Department El Quiché Department Alta Verapaz Department Izabal Department
Major rivers and lakes	Lago de Izabal Río Dulce Río Polochic Río Usumacinta
International corporation in the area	Basic Resources (PERENCO) EXMIBAL Cuchumaderas
Civil War events	Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres Chisec Massacre Guatemalan Civil War Panzós Massacre
Presidents of Guatemala related to the region	Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García Fernando Romeo Lucas García

1. ^ SEGEPLAN. "Municipios de Izabal, Guatemala". Secretaría General de Planificación. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

• Izabal Department
• Departments of Guatemala