[3][4][5] The name Panzós means "place of the green waters" in reference to the nearby Polochic River and swamps full of alligators and birds.

Later on, government decree #38 of 1871, in which all Guatemalan municipalities were asked to elect representatives to the National Assembly, shows Panzós a town in District 35.

[11] The main characteristics of the productive system of those years was the accumulation of land by a few owners[12] and a sort of "hacienda servitude" based on the legal exploitation of the natives.

[13] The finished product was carried by oxen carts over poorly kept roads or on small boats through creeks to the port, and from there it was loaded into larger ships and sent to the Caribbean Sea and then on to Europe or other destinations.

Passenger service travelled twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays, mail arrived by ship every Wednesday and cargo came from Livingston, Izabal.

[citation needed] The Northern Transversal Strip was officially created during the government of General Carlos Arana Osorio in 1970 by Legislative Decree 60-70 for agricultural development.

[18] On 28 May, peasants from La Soledad and Cahaboncito presented a document previously prepared by FASGUA to mayor Walter Overdick Garcia in order for him to read it out loud.