GUATIMALA, la Antigua, a city of Central America, in the republican state of Guatemala, and about 27 miles W.S.W. from Guatimala la Nueva. It stands in a wide and fertile valley, at an elevation of 5820 feet above the sea-level. The place was abandoned after the earthquake of 1773, which partially destroyed it; but it now contains a population of nearly 20,000. There is collected here a considerable quantity of cochineal; and there are some insignificant manufactories. The city is regularly laid out, but a great part of it is still in ruins. Prior to the earthquake the population amounted to about 60,000.