Impressive Map of Guatemala's Natural Resources

by Teo Ballvé

Jul 25, 2009


Someday I'd like to make a map like this for Colombia. This website has a map that can be manipulated by the visitor to view Guatemala's active and potential natural resource projects.

This map I made below using the site shows the correlation between road construction and extractive projects.

The lines are transportation corridors and a map key is provided below for the resource concessions:

I'm sure a lot of these corridors are part of Plan Puebla-Panama, the regional infrastructure integration initiative spanning from southern Mexico to the northwest corner of Colombia where Panama joins South America.



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  • Guatemala Map

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