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The massive earthquake that hit La muy Noble y muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Goathemala on July 29, 1773 – collapsing tremor-weakened mansions, schools, hospitals and churches – actually saved the city, by forcing the Spanish to move their colonial capital.

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