Mapa en Relieve de Guatemala

The Mapa en Reliefe is a huge relief map of Guatemala at a scale of 1:10000. But as I read later the height of the mountains has been exaggerated to 1:2000 to make it look more dramatic. The map was build over 100 years ago.
Belize is also part of the map as it technically still belongs to Guatemala (in 1859 Guatemala gave Britain rights to the land provided that the british build a road from Guatemala to the Caribbean Coast - but this road is still not finished).
I think every country should have a map like this. It gave me a much better understanding of the country I have traveled to see it like this. You can walk all around and on two sides you have little towers to view the map from above.
The funniest thing though was the guy cleaning the map who would just walk over the mountains like a giant :)Read more