Guatemalan quetzal Guatemalan quetzal The quetzal (; code: GTQ) is the currency of Guatemala, named after the national bird of Guatemala, the resplendent quetzal. In ancient Mayan culture, the quetzal bird's tail feathers were used as currency. It is divided into 100 "centavos" or "lenes" in Guatemalan slang. The plural is "quetzales". The quetzal was introduced in 1925 during the term of President José María Orellana, whose image appears on the obverse of the one-quetzal bill. It replaced the peso. Until 1987, the quetzal was pegged to and domestically equal to the United States dollar and before the pegging to the US
Quetzal Guerrero Quetzal Guerrero Quetzal Guerrero is an American-born, Latin soul singer. When he was only four, Arizona native Quetzal Guerrero picked up the violin and hasn’t put it down since. As a child and adolescent, Guerrero studied violin at the famous International Academy of the Suzuki Method, in Matsumoto, Japan, and the Conservatorio Pernambucano de Musica in Recife, Brazil. Through the years, Guerrero's proficiency in violin, guitar, percussion, and vocals has allowed him to grow into one of the more prominent artists in the Latin Soul music scene. Guerrero is akin to such Grammy Award-winning musicians as Jamiroquai, Maxwell and Van