Guatemala Quetzal Rugby Club Guatemala Quetzal Rugby Club The Guatemala Quetzal Rugby Club (also known as GQRC) is a rugby union team based in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The club competes in the Asociacion Guatemalteca de Rugby 15s tournament. The club uses both their location, Guatemala, Guatemala, and the Guatemalan national bird, the Quetzal, as club identifiers. The club in its beginning was represented mainly by players from Guatemala but also from The United States, Argentina, Japan, Mexico, England, Italy, France and Canada. As of today the club is represented by 95% Guatemalan players. The club used Maya numerals on the back of their jersey
Resplendent quetzal Spanish, so the spelling with "nn" is justified and in any case now official.) The word "quetzal" came from Nahuatl (Aztec), where "quetzalli" (from the root "quetza" = "stand") meant "tall upstanding plume" and then "quetzal tail feather"; from that Nahuatl "quetzaltotōtl" means "quetzal-feather bird" and thus "quetzal". This species is long, plus up to of tail streamer for the male, and weighs about . It is the largest representative of the trogon order. The subspecies "costaricensis" is slightly smaller than the nominate race, with tail plumes that are both shorter and narrower. Resplendent quetzals have a green body (showing