I’ve heard and read that the garbage dump in Guatemala City is the biggest in Central America. In deed, it’s massive. I took lots of pictures and put them on my Facebook page. (Feel free to check out my Facebook.) Some shots are pretty good, but it’s very hard to show the width and depth of the area on a camera. I’ll include some here.
The best view of the garbage dump is from the edge of a cemetery up on a hill that boarders that dump. This cemetery, like others I’ve seen in Latin America, have rental sections. Yes, you heard me correctly. There are tall and long cement walls, which to me resembles a human filing cabinet with one person per drawer space. When the rent is no longer paid up, the box/person is tossed over the edge of the cliff that leads down into the dump. I have a picture of one these boxes that only fell part way down toward the cliff. Nobody seems to know for sure whether the bodies/remains are still in the box. There’s some thought that perhaps the remains are tossed out at a different spot. Not too long about 45 local folks were looking for valuables among the remains when an avalanche of garbage broke free, causing some workers, a garbage truck and this group of 45 to be killed.
Ginny & Kevin say that the dump takes on a different look about every month. They fill up one section, and then spread a different way.
This is one of those times where I hope pictures will speak better than words.
The best view of the garbage dump is from the edge of a cemetery up on a hill that boarders that dump. This cemetery, like others I’ve seen in Latin America, have rental sections. Yes, you heard me correctly. There are tall and long cement walls, which to me resembles a human filing cabinet with one person per drawer space. When the rent is no longer paid up, the box/person is tossed over the edge of the cliff that leads down into the dump. I have a picture of one these boxes that only fell part way down toward the cliff. Nobody seems to know for sure whether the bodies/remains are still in the box. There’s some thought that perhaps the remains are tossed out at a different spot. Not too long about 45 local folks were looking for valuables among the remains when an avalanche of garbage broke free, causing some workers, a garbage truck and this group of 45 to be killed.
Ginny & Kevin say that the dump takes on a different look about every month. They fill up one section, and then spread a different way.
This is one of those times where I hope pictures will speak better than words.
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