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Guadalajara International Airport
Guadalajara International Airport, officially Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport, serves Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It handled 18.7 million passengers in 2025, the third busiest in Mexico.
Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal (Isatabu) is the largest island of Solomon Islands, home to capital Honiara and Mt. Popomanaseu (2,449 m); named in 1568 by the Mendaña expedition, site of the WWII Henderson Field campaign and the 1998–2003 tensions, now under heavy logging pressure.
Guadalcanal campaign
Guadalcanal campaign (Operation Watchtower), August 1942 to February 1943, the first major Allied amphibious offensive of World War II in the Pacific. Centered on Henderson Field; ended with Japanese withdrawal and marked the Pacific War's turning point.
Guadalupe
Guadalupe is a manipulation rummy card game, a no-joker variant of Machiavelli for 2-5 players with two 52-card decks, 5-card hands, and one-or-two-card draws; 1 penalty point per card left when someone goes out.
Guadalupe 4 hydroelectric plant
Guadalupe 4 (Central Hidroeléctrica Guadalupe IV) is a 216 MW hydroelectric plant on the Guadalupe River in Antioquia, Colombia, owned by EPM and in commercial operation since 1985, averaging 1,205 GWh a year.
Guadalupe County, Texas, United States
Guadalupe County, Texas: county in south central Texas, seat Seguin, established 1846 from Bexar and Gonzales counties, named for the Guadalupe River; 2020 census population 172,706, governed by a five-member Commissioners Court.
Guadalupe García–Tsao
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, born in Mexico City, is a hepatologist, Professor of Medicine at Yale, and Chief of Digestive Diseases at VA Connecticut, known for portal hypertension and cirrhosis research.
Guadalupe Island
Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), a volcanic island 250 km off Baja California, Mexico, decreed a biosphere reserve in 2005; endemic-rich flora, Guadalupe fur seal and elephant seal colonies, white shark aggregation, closed to tourism since January 2023.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a national park in west Texas, established in 1972, preserving an exposed Permian fossil reef and Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas.
Guadalupe Peak
Guadalupe Peak, also called Signal Peak, is the highest natural point in Texas at 8,751 feet, in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Culberson County; its summit trail gains 3,000 feet over 8.4 miles.
Guadalupe Victoria
Guadalupe Victoria, born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, was a Mexican insurgent commander and statesman who served as the first president of Mexico from 1824 to 1829.
Guadalupe, Nuevo León
Guadalupe, Nuevo León, a municipality in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Mexico; founded 1716 as a Tlaxcaltec mission, a city since 1971, home of the Estadio BBVA and a 2026 FIFA World Cup venue.
Guadecitabine
Guadecitabine (SGI-110, S110) is an investigational dinucleotide prodrug of decitabine, resistant to cytidine deaminase, that inhibits DNMT1; its phase 3 ASTRAL-1 AML trial missed its primary endpoint.
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe, a French overseas department and region and EU outermost region in the Lesser Antilles; volcanic Basse-Terre and coral Grande-Terre; 381,100 people, 10.9-billion-euro economy, chlordecone contamination, hurricane exposure.
Guadiana
Guadiana, Iberian river rising in Spain and forming the Spain-Portugal border to the Atlantic; heavily dammed (39 reservoirs, Alqueva, Europe's largest artificial lake) with a depleted upper aquifer and a shared transboundary estuary.
Guadua
Guadua is a genus of thorny, clumping, woody bamboo native from Mexico to southern tropical America and Trinidad, best known through Guadua angustifolia, the timber bamboo used in regulated construction in Colombia and Ecuador.
Guadua angustifolia
Guadua angustifolia, known as Colombian timber bamboo or simply guadua, is a large thorny bamboo native to South America and its most important timber bamboo.
Guaduas
Guaduas is a colonial town in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the old Camino Real northwest of Bogotá, best known as the birthplace of heroine Policarpa Salavarrieta.
Guafita Oil Field
The Guafita Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Apure-Barinas basin of southwestern Venezuela, near the Colombian border in Apure state, discovered by the Guafita-1X well in 1984.
Guagua Pichincha
Guagua Pichincha, active dacitic stratovolcano of the Ecuadorian Andes, 10-12 km west of Quito, 4,784 m high; largest historical eruption 1660 (30 cm ash in Quito), latest eruptive phase 1999-2001, monitored by IG-EPN.
Guaiac-based fecal occult blood test
The guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) is a chemical stool test that detects heme from bleeding anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract, used for colorectal cancer screening.
Guaiacol
Guaiacol, also known as O-methoxyphenol, is a phenolic ether found in wood smoke, guaiac resin, and smoked foods, and a raw material for vanillin and guaifenesin.
Guaifenesin
Guaifenesin (glyceryl guaiacolate ether), an oral expectorant derived from guaiac resin, thins airway mucus; the only OTC expectorant marketed in the US, sold as Mucinex and Robitussin since the 1989 monograph.
Guaíra Falls
Guaíra Falls (Sete Quedas, Saltos del Guairá) was a Paraná River waterfall on the Brazil–Paraguay border, 18 cataracts averaging 13,309 m³/s, submerged in October 1982 by the Itaipu Dam reservoir and later dynamited.
Guajillo chili
Guajillo chili, the dried mirasol pepper (Capsicum annuum), is Mexico's second most used dried chile after the ancho: tangy, fruity, bright red, 2,500–5,000 SHU, used in salsas, adobos, birria, and tamales.
Guajira Peninsula
Guajira Peninsula: semi-arid peninsula at the northernmost tip of South America, shared by Colombia and Venezuela, homeland of the Wayuu people, with South America's best wind resource, Cerrejón coal, and gas fields.
Gualberto Villarroel
Gualberto Villarroel was a Bolivian military officer and nationalist reformer who ruled as president from 1943 to 1946, when a mob killed him in La Paz.
Guallatiri
Guallatiri (Punata in Aymara) is an active ice-capped stratovolcano, 6,071-6,073 m, on the Chile-Bolivia border in the Nevados de Quimsachata; last erupted 1960, persistent fumaroles, third-highest risk in northern Chile.
Gualou Guizhi Tang
瓜蒌桂枝汤 (Gualou Guizhi Tang, 栝蒌桂枝汤), a Han-dynasty decoction from the Jingui Yaolüe: Guizhi Tang plus trichosanthes root (tianhuafen), the classic formula for taiyang soft tetany with body stiffness, sweating, and a deep slow pulse; listed in China's second batch of ancient classic famous formulas.
Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is a U.S. unincorporated territory in the western Pacific, ceded by Spain in the 1898 Treaty of Paris, occupied by Japan in WWII, and governed under the 1950 Organic Act; it hosts major U.S. military bases.