Puerto Barrios
Puerto Barrios is a city in
Guatemala, located at on the Gulf of Honduras at 15.73°N, 88.60°W, in Guatemala's department of
Izabal, of which Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat. Puerto Barrios was named after President
Justo Rufino Barrios. It is the main
Caribbean Sea port of Guatemala, together with it's more modern twin port town just to the east, Santo Tomas de Castilla. In
2003 the estimated population of Puerto Barrios was 40,900 people.