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COMMUNICATION WITHIN ITSELF AND WITH THE EXTERIOR.

The exterior communications of the republic are chiefly carried on, in the Atlantic, by the port of Izabal in the Golfo Dulce, and the ports of Omoa and Truxillo, and, in the South Sea, by the ports of Iztapa, Acajutla, and Realejo.

The following are the distances to and from the more particular points of the republic.

	Leagues.
From Santiago, the capital of Guatemala,
To San Salvador, the capital	70
To Ciudad Real, the capital of Chiapa	124
To Comayagua, the capital of Honduras	161
To Leon, the capital of Nicaragua	215
To Cartago, the capital of Costa Rica	397
And from the latter to David in South America	175
To Oaxaca, in Mexico	266
To Mexico	371
To Izabal, the port of the Golfo Dulce	76
To Omoa, the chief port in the Atlantic	165
To Truxillo, port of Honduras	242