Centro Universitario de Oriente (CUNORI), was founded in 1977 with headquarters in the city of Chiquimula and with coverage in the region made up of the departments of El Progreso, Izabal, Zacapa, and Chiquimula. It is an academic unit of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, and has the same category as faculties or facultative schools. Therefore, it is not university extension or depends on any faculty, although it does maintain constant communication, and there are cooperation agreements, in order to maintain the same quality standards, and in many cases joint activities are carried out.