German Guatemalan
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 500,000 (by ancestry) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Alta Verapaz, Quetzaltenango, and Guatemala City. | |
| Languages | |
| German and Spanish. | |
| Religion | |
| Jewish, Protestant, Catholic | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Germans, Guatemalans |
A German Guatemalan is a citizen of Guatemala who is of German descent. German settlers (along with settlers from Belgium) arrived in Guatemala in large numbers during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The government of Justo Rufino Barrios provided them with farmlands in the Western Highlands and Alta Verapaz and by the early 20th century many Germans were living in Guatemala City, Zacapa and Jutiapa.
Guatemala currently has a strong community of Germans who make up the majority of European immigrants in the country, and it is also the most numerous German community in all Central American countries.
In the 1940s, 8,000 German immigrants lived in Guatemala. During World War II several hundred Germans were expelled to the United States by the Guatemalan government as part of the deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II.