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Guatemala City, a landscape in miniature

The city’s Relief Map is a scale model of the country’s terrain, with an original hydraulic system for circulating water. The Miguel Ángel Asturias theatre and Museo Popol Vuh add other forms of making and collecting within Guatemala City.

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Streets and distant hills of Guatemala City seen from above — A wide view of Guatemala City streets and surrounding hills.Photograph: LBM1948

At a glance

Relief Map year: 1905[1][2]
Theatre opened: 1978[1]
Museum district: Zone 10[3]

A place worth remembering

Water in a relief map

Francisco Vela’s Relief Map dates to 1905. Guatemala City Tourism describes an original hydraulic system for circulating water through the map’s represented rivers and lakes.[1][2]

A sculptural theatre

The Teatro Nacional Miguel Ángel Asturias was designed by Efraín Recinos and opened in 1978. Guatemala City Tourism says its form evokes volcano shapes, the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl and Maya stelae.[1]

Museo Popol Vuh

Museo Popol Vuh is on the Universidad Francisco Marroquín campus in Guatemala City’s Zone 10. The museum describes its collection as pre-Hispanic and colonial art.[3]

Good to know

A few clear answers before you explore.

Who designed the city’s Relief Map?

The engineer Francisco Vela designed it in 1905, according to Guatemala City Tourism.[1][2]

Who designed the Miguel Ángel Asturias theatre?

Efraín Recinos.[1]

Where is Museo Popol Vuh?

On the Universidad Francisco Marroquín campus in Zone 10.[3]

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