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Pedro de Alvarado legend

Parchment style artwork of phantom black dog in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemalan folktale.

The Black Dog of Alvarado

Alvarado is a name that still carries weight in the ruins of Ciudad Vieja, where stone foundations lie half-swallowed by earth and memory. Long after Pedro de Alvarado’s campaigns ended and his life was lost during the Mixtón War in 1541, people began to speak of something that returned in his place. It did not wear armor or carry a

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