CHRISTMAS IN GUATEMALA

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• Most Guatemalan family’s plan and build a Nativity Scene called a "Nacimiento" or "Belen".

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• On Christmas Eve families celebrate and eat the main Christmas meal.
• It has many different traditional foods in it, but it always includes Guatemalan tamales.

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• When midnight rolls around people set off hundreds of fireworks to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
• A family prayer is said around the tree.
• Shortly after midnight they will open there presents.