The "Old City" at the site of the second short-lived colonial capital of Captaincy General of Guatemala, before it was swept away after 14 years of its existence by a flash flood from the crater lake of the nearby Volcán de Aqua and moved by about 7 km to today's Antigua, only to be moved again after a series of devastating earthquakes, this time about 250 years later, to what is now Guatemala City
