Gualan

A town in eastern Guatemala's Zacapa department where the Motagua River runs through, Gualan sits on the Atlantic highway route that follows the old Northern Railway corridor — a line completed in 1908 and once operated by a United Fruit Company subsidiary. The town's name derives from a Nahuatl word meaning "place of Yaje trees," and it lies within reach of the mountains of the wider Zacapa region, with UNESCO World Heritage sites in the surrounding area.

• Population19,354
• Nearest water0.7 km
• Nearest mountain3.8 km
• UNESCO within 50 km2