Alta Verapaz Department
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Alta Verapaz is a department in the north central part of Guatemala. The capital and chief city of the department is Cobán. Verapaz is bordered to the north by El Petén, to the east by Izabal, to the south by Zacapa, El Progreso, and Baja Verapaz, and to the west by El Quiché.
Clockwise from top: Semuc Champey in Lanquin, Lachua Lagoon in Coban, Cahabon river in San Pedro Carcha, Chichoj Lagoon in San Cristobal Verapaz, Finca Aurora in San Cristobal Verapaz & Coban Central Park
Semuc Champey pools in the Cahabòn River, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Cobán
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Cobán, fully Santo Domingo de Cobán, is the capital of the department of Alta Verapaz in central Guatemala. It also serves as the administrative center for the surrounding Cobán municipality. It is located 219 km from Guatemala City.
Above, from left to right: Central Park of Cobán, Governing Palace, City Streets, Lachuá Lagoon, Santo Domingo de Guzmán Cathedral and the biodiversity in Cobán.
Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. who along friars Rodrigo de Landa, Pedro Angulo and Luis de Cáncer, O.P, started Vera paz Christian indoctrination in 1542.
"Rabin Ahau" festival 1980
African oil palm plantation areas in Guatemala as of 2014.