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Why is Guatemala city the capital of Guatemala?
The original capital city of Guatemala was Antigua. It was alsocalled Guatemala, but in the early 1800s there were severalearthquakes that caused the nearby volcano Agua to er…upt. Onlyinstead of erupting with lava it erupted a huge pocket of waterflooding the entire city. Several natural disasters such as thiscaused the people to move the capital to a safer location in 1821.The old capital was renamed Antigua Guatemala (now called Antiguafor short) and the new capital got the name Guatemala City. (MORE)