Mazatenango in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Mazatenango in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Mazatenango plotted against Suchitepéquez and Guatemala. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Mazatenango's incremental SNDi rose from 4.8 to 4.95 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Mazatenango ranked 1st out of 1 cities in Suchitepéquez and 17th out of 31 in Guatemala as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 4.95
- Rank in Guatemala
- 10th of 31
- Rank in Suchitepéquez
- 1st of 1
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.98
- Rank in Guatemala
- 17th of 31
- Rank in Suchitepéquez
- 1st of 1
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
In new street additions, Mazatenango and Uriangato both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Cili fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Mazatenango had a more connected network than Cili in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.