A hot and seductive region.  The Sierra de Las Minas, The Estanzuela Paleontology Museum and the Basilica of Esquipulas home of the Black Christ are all in this region.  It is one of the most splendid forest eco systems that you can imagine.

Basilica of Esquipulas, Chiquimula

An aspect that has given greater relevance to this Eastern zone, is the religious tourism, which is developed in Esquipulas Village, with its magnificent Basilica, that lodges the Black Christ image, venerated throughout four centuries by nationals and foreigners, who get in peregrination to visit it. This image was carved by the remarkable artist of the colonial period. Quirio Cataño. Esquipulas is the metropolis of concord and regional approach, where important agreements about Central American peace have been signed. ...

Paleontology Museum, Zacapa

To 6kms from Departmental Head of Zacapa, is found Estanzuela, well-known by the embroiders by hand elaborated by the women and mainly by the Paleontology, Archaeological and Geology Museum that exhibits an extraordinary collection of skeletons of prehistoric animals, a funerary room from a Mayan cemetery and among other pieces of uncounted value. ...