The National Geographic Institute of Guatemala (in Spanish: Instituto Geográfico Nacional "Ingeniero Alfredo Obiols Gómez" (IGN)) is a scientific agency of the Guatemalan government.
In the 1930s, cartographic projects were carried out by ad hoc mapping commissions which were primarily responsible for boundary surveys.
[1] The Department of Maps and Cartography (in Spanish: Departamento de Mapas y Cartografía) was created in 1945 and followed by the creation of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional in 1964.
[1] In 1982 the agency was renamed to Instituto Geográfico Militar (IGM) after a merger with the Military Cartographic Service, and became a dependency of the Ministry of Defence.
[2] In January 1998, following the demilitarisation of state institutions stipulated in the Peace Accords, the IGN was reinstated as a dependency of the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, and became a dependency of the Ministry of Agriculture in September 2006.