CHIVARRETO, Guatemala — Perched high on a mountain slope above a hamlet in Guatemala, the sign is hard to miss: 10 metal letters, each 33-feet-high and painted white, spelling out the town’s name. “CHIVARRETO.”

That the sign calls to mind a much more famous one, in Southern California, is no accident.

Residents proudly refer to their hamlet as “Little Hollywood,” and their association with that corner of America is heartfelt.

The sign was the idea of a group of immigrants from Chivarreto who were living in the Los Angeles region and wanted to do something for their birthplace, a gesture that both honored the hamlet and underscored its ties to the migrants’ adopted home in the United States.

They found inspiration in the Hollywood sign they could see on their way to jobs on construction sites and in restaurant kitchens.