Guatemala City Relief Map

Relief Geography and Guatemala City

Relief geography is an important part of physical sciences in Guatemala and Guatemala City. It's studied at local universities and implemented frequently due to the diverse geography of Guatemala. As a result, these organizations make Guatemala City relief maps available to the public at varying intervals.

Guatemala City has a unique exhibit in Zona 2 of the city. In Minerva Park (Parque Minerva) is a huge raised relief map of the whole region of Guatemala and Belize. This map region illustration was created in 1904 by Francisco Vela and his assistant Claudio Urrutia. This large map showing this territory is the only one of its kind in the world. Below is a google map of Guatemala City with Parque Minerva marked.

View Parque Minerva/ Minerva Park in a larger map

This free map of Guatemala City shows the basic layout of the capital.

Other relief maps that are useful are USGS (United States Geological Survey) relief maps .

Click here for a raised relief world map (pdf map of the world - zoomable)

To see maps of Guatemala City and Mixco that are not shaded relief maps, click here .

To see an interactive map of Guatemala City by zones (mapa de Guatemala por zonas), click here .

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