A German Guatemalan is a citizen of Guatemala whose ancestors were German settlers (along with other settlers from Belgium) who arrived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Guatemala had a massive immigration of Germans in the nineteenth century, the government of Justo Rufino Barrios these immigrants they were provided farmlands of coffee in the departments of Quetzaltenango, Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz, but by the early twentieth century came Germans in Guatemala City, Zacapa and Jutiapa, in these regions there are many descendants of these German people. Guatemala currently has a strong community of Germans who make up the majority of European immigrants in the country, is also the most numerous German community in all Central American countries.