Estanzuela ( Spanish pronunciation: [estanˈswela] ) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Zacapa . It is a small town. Estanzuela was a passing place for Spaniards looking to go farther west to the ocean. A group of these Spaniards decided to rest for a while and thought Estanzuela to be the perfect location. As they went through the surroundings they saw that it was good land to harvest, so they decided to stay. At first, it was called "La Estancia". It is said that its second name was "La Estanzuelita," a Spanish diminutive of estancia , which is translated to resting place . Later, the name developed to today's name Estanzuela.
7-534: Estanzuela's weather is warm and mostly dry. The highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Guatemala, 45.0 °C (113.0 °F), was recorded here. The lowest temperature ever recorded was 7.0 °C (44.6 °F). Estanzuela receives 652.3 millimetres (25.68 in) of rainfall annually and has an average humidity of 70%. People are friendly. Their lifestyle revolves around being football (soccer) fanatics and sharing good times with their neighbors as it
14-464: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Estanzuela Museum of Paleontology and Archaeology The Estanzuela Museum of Paleontology and Archaeology ( Spanish : Museo de Paleontologia y Arqueología de Estanzuela) is a museum located in Estanzuela , Guatemala . The museum is dedicated to the preservation of archeological remains of Eastern Guatemala. The idea with the creation
21-563: Is a small town. The workforce in Estanzuela varies as they have all sorts of skilled citizens who help each other improve their quality of life and it just keeps developing. Estanzuela is also home to a modest museum of archeology . With a population of 11,140 and an area covering 92.4 km², Estanzuela has a density of 120.56 people per square kilometer. 15°00′00″N 89°34′00″W / 15°N 89.5667°W / 15; -89.5667 This Guatemala location article
28-407: The collection of fossils are the remains of armadillos, prehistoric horses, toxodonts, capybaras, sloths and mastodons. The animal remains are skeletons dating back 150,000 years. It is estimated that the museum has more than 5,000 archeological pieces. The museum has exhibits related to the formation of the continents, the emergence of land animals and the formation of marine animals. In addition,
35-526: The museum has exhibits related to the migration and evolution of the animals that inhabited Guatemala. Also in the museum there are short annotations of the findings made by Roberto Woolfolk. The museum also has relics found in the archaeological site of the tomb of Guaytán . The museum also contains pottery, ceramics, necklaces and plates of the Mayan civilization found in the Motagua River basin and
42-441: The time, requested that paleontologists Roberto Woolfolk and Bryan Patterson recover archeological pieces. In 1974, the museum opened for the first time in the presence of President Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio . In 2017, a virtual tour of the museum was added using an adapted version of Google Street View . The museum contains archaeological collections made of lithic and ceramics, as well as fossils from Eastern Guatemala. Among
49-619: Was with the intention of preserving different archeological artifacts in Guatemala after the archeological discoveries by the German Karl Theodor Sapper. One of the people who promoted the idea of the creation of the museum were David Vela and the director of the Museum of Natural History of Guatemala City , Jorge Ibarra. In the 1970s, Leonel Sisniega Otero, director of the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism at
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