Livingston is the name of a town in Izabal Department, eastern Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

, at the mouth of the
Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras

Gulf of Honduras

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. The town (whose name is occasionally adapted into Spanish orthography as Lívingston) serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name.
It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea

Caribbean Sea

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 before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios

Puerto Barrios

Puerto Barrios is a city in Guatemala, located within the Gulf of Honduras at. The bay in which the harbour is located is called Bahia de Amatique. Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality.Puerto Barrios was named after...

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Livingston is noted for its unusual mix of Garífuna

Garifuna

The Garinagu are descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people. The British colonial administration used the term Black Carib and Garinagu to distinguish them from Yellow and Red Carib, the Amerindian population that did not intermarry with Africans...

, Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbean

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, Maya and Ladino people

Ladino people

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 and culture.