Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa
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Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa is in the Pacific Lowlands of Guatemala.
Understand
Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (often shortened to just Santa), is a hot, busy town in a sugar-producing region of the Pacific plain - the air smells of burnt sugar from the many refinaries in the area.
Get in
Buses from Mazatenango and Escuintla.
See
El BaúlSugar plantation with on-site museum of prehispanic sculpture excavated from the cane-fields, plus a couple of old narrow-guage steam engines once used on the plantations.
BilbaoA couple of prehispanic boulder sculptures among sugar-cane fields.
La DemocraciaA small town with an impressive array of prehispanic boulder sculptures laid out around the main plaza, brought there from the Monte Alto site. There is also a small regional museum.
Drink
Don't accept ice in any drink, unless you want a dose of amoebas, not even in chain restaurants like Pollo Campero etc.
Go next
- Escuintla
- Guatemala City
- Lake Atitlán - take a bus to Mazatenango, and get off at Cocales to take transport up to Santiago Atitlán.