The Republic of Guatemala is the northwesternmost and most populous country of Central America, bordering Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. The country has a coastline about 250 km (150 mi) long facing south on the Pacific Ocean and a short coastline facing northeast on the Gulf of Honduras, the southwestern arm of the Caribbean Sea. The principal ports include Puerto Quetzal (San José) on the Pacific and Puerto Barrios on the Gulf of Honduras. This page is for lights on the Caribbean coast and there is a separate page for those of the Pacific coast. In Spanish the word for a lighthouse is faro, baliza is a beacon, isla is an island, cabo is a cape, punta is a promontory or point of land, péñon is a rock, arrecife is a reef, bahía is a bay, ría is an estuary or inlet, estrecho is a strait, río is a river, and puerto is a port or harbor. Aids to navigation in Guatemala are the responsibility of the national port authority, the Comisión Nacional Portuaria. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume J of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals for Caribbean lights and from volume G for Pacific lights. Light List numbers are from NGA Publication 110.
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![]() Matias de Galvez Range Front Light, Puerto Barrios, October 2023 Google Maps photo by Byron Cardona |
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Adjoining pages: North: Belize | East: Honduras | South: Guatemala Pacific
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Posted October 31, 2008. Checked and revised May 5, 2025. Lighthouses: 4. Site copyright 2025 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.