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Livingston is a Guatemalan municipality in the department of Izabal, located 65 kilometers by land and approximately 15 kilometers by water from the departmental capital Puerto Barrios. Livingston is mainly populated by Garífuna inhabitants, who settled in the mid-eighteenth century, and is one of the main tourist attractions in the country. It has a unique cuisine of the region, its main dishes are the "Rice and beans", the tapado and the famous coconut bread.

After the Independence of Central America in 1821, because of the inhospitable and withdrawn of the region, all Izabal was designated as a dependent district of the department of Verapaz, and as part of the Zacapa cirtuito that belonged to District No.4 for the delivery of justice through of jury trials. At that time, British commercial establishments settled in Belize and began prosperous trade routes with the Caribbean ports of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, after the expulsion of the members of the conservative party of Guatemala in 1829 by the invading forces of the liberal general Francisco Morazán the situation in Guatemala was constant wars and invasions, which led to Soconusco separated from the country and the State of Los Altos to try. The figure of General Rafael Carrera emerged and managed to pacify the country in 1851.

By that time, the Jesuits returned to Guatemala and settled initially in Livingston and also began the Caste War in Yucatan, an indigenous uprising that left thousands of European settlers murdered, and the Belizean and Petenero representatives were put on alert not only because the Yucatecan refugees were fleeing to Petén and Belize, but it was feared that Carrera, given his strong alliance with the Guatemalan Indians, would propitiate the indigenous revolutions in Central America. However, the matter did not happen anymore, and Guatemala entered a phase of peace and prosperity from 1851. The border of Livingston with Belize was delimited by means of the treaty Wyke-Aycinena established between the government of General Rafael Carrera by intemedia of his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pedro de Aycinena on April 30,1859. At that time, Guatemala maintained cordial relations with the British crown and when the threat of William Walker was presented again in Central America in 1859, the British provided arms to the Guatemalan government to face it, in exchange for which the Carrera regime had to cede the territory of Belize to the Empire British, which already had a commercial center and contraband on the coast of the same.

This treaty has since been reported in Guatemala as the biggest mistake of the conservative government of Rafael Carrera-. Before the construction of Puerto Barrios in the late nineteenth century and the Santo Tomás de Castilla port in the 1970s, the municipal seat of Livingston was the first-class port on the Atlantic coast of Guatemala and the departmental capital of Izabal. In 1935, during the government of General Jorge Ubico, in Livingston were filmed some scenes from the Hollywood film production The New Adventures of Tarzan, which was also filmed in Chichicastenango, the jungle of Peten, Rio Dulce, Puerto Barrios and Antigua Guatemala. In 1970, together with the rest of the municipalities of Izabal and several municipalities of Quiché, Alta Verapaz and Huehuetenango, it was incorporated into the Transversal Strip of the North.

Its main productive activities are livestock, African palm and oil exploration.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingston,_Guatemala

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