Quetzaltenango

or Que·zal·te·nan·go

[ ket-sahl-te-nahng-gaw ]

noun

1. a city in SW Guatemala: earthquake 1902.

Example Sentences

Across the border Guatemala’s national disaster prevention agency shared photos of small landslides onto highways in the Quetzaltenango region and large cracks in walls in a hospital in San Marcos on its social media accounts, but there were no reports of deaths.

From Seattle Times

For a moment, vendors and customers can picture themselves back home in the municipalities of Quetzaltenango, Flores or Mazatenango.

From Los Angeles Times

“The people who are leaving Huehuetenango, San Marcos and Quetzaltenango are not people who want go on vacation or have an adventure. Those people are leaving because there is no other possibility to survive than going to look for work where it exists,” Arévalo stressed, referring to the western regions of Guatemala close to the Mexican border.

From Los Angeles Times

At the end of the forum, Yolanda Nish, originally from Quetzaltenango, felt that the three candidates largely echoed one another.

From Los Angeles Times

“We are the ones who are least taken into account,” said Alba Rojas, a clothing designer originally from Quetzaltenango who settled in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and voted in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times