Order of the Quetzal


The Order of the Quetzal is Guatemala’s highest honor.

History and award conditions

Established in 1936, it is bestowed by the Government of Guatemala. The award acknowledges officials of nations, organizations and other entities whose artistic, civic, humanitarian, or scientific works merit special recognition.

Grades

The badge is a ten-pointed cross with five branches and a medallion representing the coat of arms of Guatemala. The branches are light blue with a wide dark blue border. On the white ring is inscribed "AL MERITO GUATEMALA". The ribbon is light blue with thin white borders.

Recipients


YearAwarded to
1936Benito Mussolini
1949Edwin Jackson Kyle
1956Chiang Kai-Shek
1959Golda Meir
1958Roberto González Goyri
1960Flavio Herrera
1960General Manuel Francisco Sosa Avila
1961Paul Carpenter Standley
1962François Durafour
1962Martha Bolaños de Prado
1963Johannes Marré
1968Augustus Ledyard Smith
1975J. Eric S. Thompson
1976Carmen Lind Pettersen
1980Tatiana Proskouriakoff
1987Richard von Weizsäcker
1991Yuri Knorozov
1992Fredrick Chien
1995Michel Gabaudan
1995Diego Molina Flores
1998Teodoro Palacios Flores
2001Jacques Diouf
2003René Lara
2004Michael D. Coe
2004Jorge Briz
1957, 2009Alberto Fuentes Mohr
2009Juan Carlos Plata
2009Fidel Castro
2010Carlos Castresana
2011Rodolfo Mac Donald
2011Leonel Fernández
2011Stephen D. Houston
2011Julia Isabel Urrutia Castellanos
2013Ricardo Arjona
2013National Geographic Society
2013Rotary Foundation
2013Michael Wiley McCord, M.D.
2014Luis von Ahn
2017Fernando Mazariegos, Edmond Mulet, Richard Hansen
2017Tsai Ing-wen
?José Antonio Padilla Segura
?Julio María Sanguinetti
?Kjell Magne Bondevik
?Rafael Arévalo Martínez
?Julio Abril Valdez
?Augusto Pinochet
?Alfredo Stroessner
?Juan Domingo Perón
?Jorge Rafael Videla
?Sophia of Spain and Juan Carlos I of Spain
2020Vicente Gonzalez