Guatemala

Guatemala appears here both as a modern country and as a much wider historical name, and the maps show the change. Early nin...

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Guatemala appears here both as a modern country and as a much wider historical name, and the maps show the change. Early nineteenth-century sheets may give the name to territory across Central America, while later maps separate it from Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, in work by Bellin, Tallis and Rapkin, Vandermaelen and Johnston. Thematic maps examine population, political divisions, products and mountain ranges, with separate treatment of Lake Petén Itzá and the densely settled south. The prints show Indigenous communities, local officials, workers on the Pacific slope and tropical vegetation, and flags and maritime ensigns record the country's identity at sea.

Guatemala appears here both as a modern country and as a much wider historical name, and the maps show the change. Early nineteenth-century sheets may give the name to territory across Central America, while later maps separate it from Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, in work by Bellin, Tallis and Rapkin, Vandermaelen and Johnston. Thematic maps examine population, political divisions, products and mountain ranges, with separate treatment of Lake Petén Itzá and the densely settled south. The prints show Indigenous communities, local officials, workers on the Pacific slope and tropical vegetation, and flags and maritime ensigns record the country's identity at sea.

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