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This is the story of an indigenous Maya community that settled in a small, remote village in the mountains of central Guatemala. There they planted and tended a forest, preserving an ancient reverence for the earth, and passing ancient wisdom from generation to generation., .

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Margarito's Forest is based on the life of Don Margarito Esteban Álvarez Velázquez as told by his daughter, Dona' María Guadelupe. This story of the Maya love for the earth, passed from one generation to the next, is set in Saq Ja', a small, remote village in the mountains of central Guatemala. As the deforesting effects of climate change become clear, Don Margarito's life and the ways of the Maya offer timely wisdom for a planet in peril. This book is a commemoration of his courage and the preservation the forest that he planted