El Quetzal El Quetzal El Quetzal () is a municipality in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. It was recognised as municipality on 19th of June 1900. The major source of income is the agriculture. "La Inmaculada Concepción" (English:The Immaculate Conception") parish in La Reforma municipality was founded on 1 January 1956 and originally served both La Reforma and El Quetzal municipalities. Its first priest was father Jaime López, a Franciscan, who led the parish until 5 March 1958. His successor was father Juan Bartolomé Bueno, who was in charge until 31 July 1960, when father Pedro López Nadal, from Spain, took
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