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 Pacfic coast and there is a separate page for those of the Caribbean coast. Aids to navigation in Guatemala are the responsibility of the national port authority, the Comisión Portuaria Nacional. 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. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume G of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. NGA numbers are from NGA Publication 111.
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Adjoining pages: North: Guatemala: Caribbean | Southeast: El Salvador | Northeast: Mexico South Coast
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Posted October 31, 2008. Checked and revised December 31, 2024 Lighthouses: 9. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.