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Municipalities where apparel manufacturing concentrates today

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The existing cluster sits in the metropolitan area and its southern and western corridor. The MSICG table (MINECO data, as of 1 Sep 2011) counts active 29-89 textile firms by municipality: Mixco 74, Villa Nueva 36, Palín 25, Amatitlán 12, San Miguel Petapa 5, out of 278 in total; cumulatively over 1990–2011, Mixco 254 and Villa Nueva 89. Sae-A runs apparel plants in Mixco and Villa Nueva; Sae A International S.A. lists its address at 1a. Avenida La Brigada 13-30, zone 7 of Mixco, Colonia San Ignacio. Villa Nueva has the Consigna free zone (Granjas Italia) and sits on the CA-9 Sur corridor towards Puerto Quetzal; San Miguel Petapa hosts the Multinova class-A warehouse complex (Grupo Rosul). The reason is the metropolitan labor pool (metropolitan urban open unemployment 3.9%, average income Q3,901, ENEIC Q2 2025) and decades of workers trained in sewing. MSICG places the 29-89 textile concentration in five departments: Guatemala, Escuintla, Sacatepéquez, Chimaltenango and Quetzaltenango.

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Figures

Empresas textiles 29-89 vigentes en MixcoMSICG con datos MINECO
74 (acumulado 1990–2011: 254)corte 1-sep-2011
Empresas textiles 29-89 vigentes en Villa NuevaMSICG con datos MINECO
36 (acumulado 1990–2011: 89)corte 1-sep-2011
Empresas textiles 29-89 vigentes en Palín / Amatitlán / San Miguel PetapaMSICG con datos MINECO
25 / 12 / 5corte 1-sep-2011
Total empresas textiles 29-89 vigentesMSICG con datos MINECO
278corte 1-sep-2011
Desempleo abierto urbano metropolitano / ingreso promedioINE vía dossier 04
3.9% / Q3,901ENEIC T2 2025

Caveat

Municipality counts are as of 2011; no current public register of plants by municipality exists

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  • Puerto QuetzalThe southern corridor's sea outlet: the Pacific coast handles 60% of the country's port traffic; around 60 km from the capital by the Palín-Escuintla motorway and 4 km from Zona Libre QuetzalPort
  • Multinova (Grupo Rosul)Class A warehouse complex for rent, >70,000 m² in two phases, for distribution, light manufacturing and logistics.Industrial park
  • Grupo RosulDeveloper of the Multinova class-A warehouse complex in San Miguel PetapaDeveloper

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