Puerto Barrios is a city of the Guatemala, located at 15°73 ′ NR 88°60 ′ O on the Atlantic coast in the department of Izabal, of which it is the chief town. Puerto Barrios was named according to the former president Justo Rufino Barrios. It is the seaport most important of Guatemala on the coast of the the Caribbean with the city close to Santo Tomás de Castilla, located at 7km in the south. In 2003, the estimated population of Puerto Barrios was of 40,900 inhabitants.

Old banana port, the city knew its apogee at the “beautiful time” of the United Fruit Company. The latter, which one calls “El Pulpo” (the octopus) because of his seizure on economics and politics of the Central America, then holds the monopoly of the port of the city, inter alia, and of the railroads of the country. It directly conveys its banana production of Puerto Barrios to the the United States, main reason of the economic growth of the city.