Puerto San José is the main town along the Pacific coast of Guatemala, and is in the department of Escuintla. It contains about 20,000 people. it was the Pacific port for Guatemala, but this was superseded in the 20th century by Puerto Quetzal, a few miles to the east of the town. The Puerto Quetzal complex is the major employer in the town. There is a tourist industry but it is almost exclusively aimed at Guatemalans and other Central Americans. For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ... Escuintla (sometimes spelled Esquintla) is a small city in south central Guatemala. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ...