Friday, November 7, 2008

Guatemala.

(my information is from the CIA Factbook)


This is the glorious country I will be traveling to. I will mostly be in eastern Guatemala. Here are some important facts:

*Size: slightly smaller than Tennessee
*
Climate: tropical; hot, humid in lowlands; cooler in highlands
*Natural Hazzards:
numerous volcanoes in mtns, occasional violent earthquakes, hurricanes, tropical storms
*Population:
13,002,206
*Languages:
Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40%
*Unemployment Rate: 3.2%
*Population below poverty line: 56.2%









1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Honestly you're going to love it there! (this is Natalie from facebook by the way)