Profile used for matching
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- Script
- Latin
- Language
- Spanish
- Road edge lines
- White, solid
- Centre lines
- Yellow, solid
- Street View car
- Grey / silver
- Car details
- Roof rack, Mirrors visible
- Camera
- Gen 3
- Licence plates
- White
- Warning signs
- Yellow diamond
- Landscape
- Tropical, Mountainous
- Vegetation
- Banana, Pine
- Road numbers
- CA, RN
Country-wide 7
Short plates - blurred they show a blue tinge or a hint of green on the left
Grey Street View car w/ visible roof rack + side mirrors on ALL car coverage
Only Laos has a similar car among tropical countries; the Dominican Republic's has thick black bar-stripes and no visible mirrors.
Laos: Spanish + ALTO → Guatemala; Lao script → Laos.
Dominican Republic: Clean bars + mirrors → Guatemala.
Tropical country, mainly covered by rainforest
Pastel-painted stone houses w/ rusted sheet-metal roofs; exposed white brick also common
Roads: solid white outer + single yellow middle - significantly thinner lines than Mexico's
Mexico: Thin lines + grey roof-rack car → Guatemala.
Stop signs say 'ALTO'
Mexico: Car meta + pole paint decide.
Panama: Car meta decides.
Costa Rica: Car meta decides.
Poles very commonly painted pink, green, or both
Regional 6
Coverage fairly sparse, especially in the north (map of covered roads)
Topography: middle = mountainous; south = completely flat farmland, more built-up; north = fairly flat w/ slight hills/rolling
Oil-palm plantations in two areas: southwest + just north of the central mountains
Completely green poles → southeast (+ one eastern road further north + a stretch near Melchor de Mencos, far NE); their white pole plates: top two characters = the road you're on (infographic)
Car-bar meta: top-right bar faces FORWARD in most of the country; in the southeast it faces BACKWARD (often w/ a blue rope on the bottom-right bar); south + northeast also backward but missing the thin black cap on the bottom-right bar
Phone numbers: 2 = Guatemala City only; 6 = Guatemala Department only; 7 = anywhere EXCEPT Guatemala Dept; 3/4/5 = anywhere
City 1
White rectangular 'electricista' stickers on poles = unique to Guatemala City
Specific spots 2
Spotlights: Lago de Atitlán = by far the biggest mountain lake, ringed by volcanoes; jungle dirt road north of Tikal; small white bollards w/ 2 black stripes → road 1 NE of Quetzaltenango; PET-11 south of Las Pozas = rolling + perfectly N-S; CA9 (Escuintla→coast) = divided concrete highway
Tikal trekker: several Mayan temples just west of Tikal town - the most prominent ruins trekker (others exist, smaller)