Río Bravo is a town, with a population of 15,391 (2018 census),[2] and a municipality in the Suchitepéquez department of Guatemala.

[citation needed] It is located 127 km from the capital of Guatemala, reaching the coastal plain along the Pacific Ocean, because of this temperature is normally maintained at 32 °C but drops to 22 °C or 37 °C totals.

226 of the Congress of the Republic, it was elevated to the category of Municipality, segregating the territory of Santa Barbara in a document dated December 10, 1951 in the public square of San Francisco Rio Bravo.

A sixteen-year-old teenage girl was burned to death there in May 2015 by a vigilante mob after being accused by some of involvement in the killing of a taxi driver earlier in the month.

While the attack was in retaliation for the girl's presumed involvement in the robbery and murder of a local taxi driver, with two male accomplices being absent, without a trial, it is unknown whether she was involved or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and just happened to be near the two male individuals who fled the scene.