Guatemala City and transfer

Panorámica de la Ciudad Capital actual. After the difficulties encountered by the Spanish conquest agasint the indigenous people in constant struggle, the city of Guatemala was moved to a new site.

Transfer to Almolonga

On November 22, 1527 City settles Guatemala in Almolonga Valley at the foot of the Volcan de Agua. This is just three years after the founding of the city Iximché.

The chronicles and contemporary accounts tell of the surprise of the colonists when they discovered this valley, gentle climate, fertile soil and nearby water sources. Absent Pedro de Alvarado (who was in Spain), the move was made by his brother Jorge de Alvarado.

The destruction of Almolonga

A storm that refused to leave rained for several days over the region, where stream na Agua Volcano from the city razed it on September 11, 1541.

There are reports indicating that Indians did not stop the abuse and that this fact was a divine punishment for the Spanish.

Pedro de Alvarado had already died crushed by the horse of a novice Spanish in full flight. Dying for several days died on July 4, 1541 (two months before the destruction of Almolonga).

The story of divine retribution seems to make sense. Beatriz de la Cueva also had ambitions of power as her husband, Pedro de Alvarado now deceased. The power it won the widowed not last for just two months after his death Tunatiuh (Alvarado), Beatriz de la Cueva died with the currents coming down from the volcano.

Guatemala moved to the Valley of Panchoy

For the March 16, 1543 stood the city of Guatemala in the Valley Panchoy what is now La Antigua Guatemala.

The region appears in the accounts of the chroniclers as a noble place of great beauty and surrounded by natural beauty with drinking water sources nearby. Since the city built in the place was called "the most beautiful in America."

Two hundred years it was the City of Guatemala in place until 1773, the Santa Marta earthquake destroyed the city.

Final transfer of Guatemala City

Agreements between protest and resistance, after the city destroyed Panchoy, the city moved in 1777 to the Valley of the Virgin to form Guatemala de la Asunción. Panchoy, now La Antigua Guatemala, was a set of ruins (beautiful) witnessed a proud past as a city. Many neighbors, including whole religious orders refused to move and tried to rebuild. So some buildings were demolished by authorities to discourage their reconstruction and ensure its removal.
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