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Guatire
Guatire: city in Miranda state, Venezuela, seat of Zamora Municipality, about 26 km northeast of Caracas; colonial parish founded 1680, listed as founded 1701; 187,262 residents (2011 census), 328 m elevation, twin city of Guarenas.
Guava
Guava (Amrood, Peyara) is a tropical fruit tree of the myrtle family, an evergreen shrub or small tree grown throughout the tropics for its sweet aromatic fruit.
Guava Island
Guava Island is a 2019 55-minute musical film directed by Hiro Murai, written by Stephen Glover, starring Donald Glover as musician Deni Maroon and Rihanna as Kofi Novia. Filmed secretly in Cuba, it premiered at Coachella 2019 and streamed on Amazon Prime Video.
Guavio hydroelectric plant
The Guavio hydroelectric plant (Central Hidroeléctrica El Guavio) is a 1,260 MW hydroelectric station on the Guavio River in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the largest in the country.
Guavus
Guavus Inc is a big data and streaming analytics software company founded in 2006 by Anukool Lakhina, headquartered in San Mateo, California, and acquired by Thales in 2017.
Guayabera
Guayabera: traditional Latin American and Caribbean men's shirt, also called Mexican wedding shirt or Camisa de Yucatán, with four pockets and two pleated or embroidered rows; origins traced to Cuba, production centered in Mérida.
Guayabo de Turrialba
Guayabo de Turrialba is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Cartago province, Costa Rica, and the country's largest pre-Hispanic site, declared a National Monument in 1973.
Guayana campaign
The Guayana campaign (Campaña de Guayana) was the 1816–1817 series of operations by which republican forces under Manuel Piar and Simón Bolívar liberated Venezuela's Guayana province.
Guayaques
Guayaques (Cerros de Guayaques), volcano number 355093, is a 10-km chain of rhyodacitic lava domes, 5,598 m high, straddling the Chile-Bolivia border east of the Purico pyroclastic shield, with no historical eruptions.
Guayaquil
Guayaquil (Santiago de Guayaquil), Ecuador's largest city and main port, capital of Guayas province on the Guayas River; founded 1535/1547, independent 1820, economic hub with about 24% of national GDP and severe flood and security challenges.
Guayaquil Conference
The Guayaquil Conference (Entrevista de Guayaquil) was a meeting between liberators José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar at Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 26 and 27 July 1822.
Guayaquil shipyards
The Guayaquil shipyards were the colonial Spanish American shipbuilding industry in Guayaquil, Ecuador, building most large vessels for the Pacific coast of the Viceroyalty of Peru.
Guaymas Basin
Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California: young sedimented rift basin with two spreading troughs, basalt sill intrusions into organic-rich sediment, hydrothermal vents to 315°C, hydrothermal petroleum, and rich hydrocarbon-oxidizing microbial communities.
Guaynaa
Guaynaa (Jean Carlos Santiago Pérez, born 1992, Caguas, Puerto Rico) is a reggaeton and tropical-music singer known for the 2019 viral hit "Rebota," albums La República and Cumbia y Amor, and his marriage to Lele Pons.
Guazatine
Guazatine (guanoctine, guazatine acetates, CAS 108173-90-6) is a non-systemic guanidine contact fungicide and bird repellent used for cereal seed treatment and postharvest citrus sour rot control; EU approval withdrawn in 2011.
Guazhou Changle power station
Guazhou Changle power station (常乐电厂) is a 6,000 MW coal-fired peak-shaving plant in Guazhou County, Gansu, China, with six 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units completed in October 2025.
Guazuma
Guazuma is a genus of four Malvaceae tree species native to Mexico and tropical America; its best-known species, G. ulmifolia (mutamba, West Indian elm), provides timber, livestock forage, and medicinal proanthocyanidins.
Guazuma ulmifolia
Guazuma ulmifolia (West Indian elm, bastard cedar, mutamba, guácimo) is a neotropical Malvaceae tree from Mexico to tropical America, a Least Concern multipurpose timber, fodder, fuel, and medicinal species with tannin-rich bark.
Guba Gusinaya
Guba Gusinaya (Губа Гусиная, "Goose Bay") is a Siberian arctic bay listed at 71°45′N 149°30′E in the Pub. 183 Northern Coast of Russia Pilot gazetteer; guba is the Pomor term for a river-mouth bay.
Gubaidullah Khan
Gubaidullah Khan (Ғұбайдолла хан) was a Kazakh Chinggisid ruler of the Middle Zhuz. In 1824, Russian forces stopped his Qing title attempt, ending its authority in the steppe.
Gubbi
Gubbi, born Karthik Sundar Gubbi, is a Kannada-language rapper from Bengaluru who in 2019 became the first Kannada solo rap artist to release an album.
Guben
Guben is a town in Brandenburg's Spree-Neiße district on the Lusatian Neisse, twin town of Polish Gubin. Chartered 1235, famed for Wilke's weatherproof felt hats and GDR chemical fibres; about 16,000 residents.
Gubernatrix
Gubernatrix is a monotypic tanager genus holding the Yellow Cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata, Cardenal Amarillo), an Endangered South American songbird of 1,000–2,000 mature individuals threatened by cagebird trapping, habitat loss, and hybridization with Diuca diuca.
Guberniya reform of 1708
The guberniya reform of 1708 (Губернская реформа 1708 года) was Peter I's division of Russia into eight governorates, including Moscow, Kiev, and Siberia, giving governors full administrative, judicial, and military power.
Gubkinskoye Gas Asset
Gubkinskoye Gas Asset is an oil, gas, and condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, discovered in 1965 and producing gas commercially since 1999.
Gucci
Gucci, Italian luxury fashion house founded in Florence in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, a former Savoy hotel porter. Known for the Bamboo 1947 bag, Horsebit 1953 loafer, and GG monogram; owned by Kering since 1999.
Gucci Gang
Gucci Gang is Lil Pump's (Gazzy Garcia) 2017 SoundCloud rap single, produced by Bighead and Gnealz, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the shortest top-10 hit in 42 years, five-times RIAA platinum.
Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane (Radric Davis), Atlanta rapper and 1017 Records owner, a trap pioneer. Debut Trap House 2005; ~100+ releases 2005-2026; 2016 comeback album Everybody Looking hit No. 2; "Black Beatles" his first Hot 100 No. 1.
Guccio Gucci
Guccio Gucci (1881–1953) was an Italian businessman who founded the Gucci leather-goods house in Florence in 1921; his sons expanded it globally, and family ownership ended in 1988–1989.
Gucheng of Hua State
滑国故城 (Capital City of Hua State, Fei Hua): ruined Spring and Autumn period capital of the small Ji-surname Hua state, destroyed by Qin in 627 BC, at Huachenghe village, Fudian town, Yanshi district, Luoyang, Henan; boot-shaped 140,000 m² walled site excavated in 1962, sixth-batch national heritage site (2006), distinct from modern Hua county.