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Castillo de San Felipe de Lara
The Castillo de San Felipe de Lara (often referred to simply as the Castillo de San Felipe) is a Spanish colonial fort at the entrance to Lake Izabal in eastern Guatemala. Lake Izabal is connected with the Caribbean Sea via the Dulce River and El Golfete lake.〔ITMB 1998.〕 The fort was strategically situated at the narrowest point on the river.〔Alvarado Barrientos 2003, p.5.〕 The Castillo de San Felipe was used by the Spanish for several centuries, during which time it was destroyed and looted several times by pirates.〔Quan and Morales 2004, p.17.〕
The fort is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List and is a popular regional tourist destination.
==Tourism and conservation==
This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on September 23, 2002 in the Cultural category.〔UNESCO World Heritage Centre.〕 The fort is under the administrative care of the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism (INGUAT – Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo).〔 It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Río Dulce National Park.〔Quan and Morales 2004, pp.17–18.〕 A significant increase in the number of visiting tourists was recorded in the period 2001–2003, over 90% of whom were Guatemalans.〔Quan and Morales 2004, p.18.〕 The figures for these period show a jump from 45,652 tourists in 2001 to just over 156,000 visitors in 2003.〔Quan and Morales 2004, p.19.〕
The fort was badly damaged by an earthquake on 11 July 1999, suffering a number of cracks in its walls.〔Putzeys and Ortega 2001, p.621.〕 The river water around the fort has been found to be heavily contaminated with coliform bacteria resulting from local pollution.〔
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