San Benito is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala. It covers an area of 112 km2, and had 29,926 inhabitants at the 2002 Census; the...
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San Benito may refer to: San Benito, Petén, Guatemala San Benito, a community in Tipitapa, Nicaragua Islas San Benito, an island off the west coast of...
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municipality of San Benito. The municipality of Flores also includes a wide swathe of rural territory stretching north from Lake Petén Itzá to the Mexican...
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Petén (from the itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well...
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Petén FC, is a Guatemalan football club based in San Benito, Petén Department. They play their home games in the Estadio Alejandro Ochaeta Requena. Founded...
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of Lake Petén Itzá in the Petén department of Guatemala. It is connected by a causeway to its sister town of Flores (the capital of the Petén department)...
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Guatemalan former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is from San Benito, Petén and has the nickname "la Toña". Marquez suffered the loss of his mother...
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the Petén Basin. It borders the municipalities of Santa Ana to the north, Dolores to the east, Poptún to the south, Sayaxché to the west, and San Francisco...
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Candelaria River. The Candelaria River begins in the Petén Department in Guatemala, (where it is called the San Pedro River), and empties into the Boca de Pargos...
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33 Sololá 30,155 Sololá 34 Ciudad Vieja 25,226 Sacatepéquez 35 San Benito 24,792 Petén 36 Palín 24,680 Escuintla 37 Barberena 24,085 Santa Rosa 38 Jacaltenango...
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Mundo Maya International Airport (category Petén Department)
and international air traffic for the areas of Flores, Santa Elena, and San Benito, as well as all the Maya sites of Tikal or Yaxhá and destinations such...
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Petén Itzá. Motul de San José is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the north shore of Lake Petén Itzá, in the centre of the department of El Petén....
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Lester Martínez (category People from Petén Department)
October 1995 in the municipality of Melchor de Mencos in Petén Department, but grew up in San Benito. He began boxing at the age of twelve and won the schoolboy...
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countless sites throughout Guatemala, although the largest concentration is in Petén. This period is characterized by urbanisation, the emergence of independent...
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Municipalities of Guatemala (section Petén)
437 39.42 8 San Andrés 8 874 35 465 4 9 San Benito 112 54 189 483.84 10 San Francisco 320 16 787 52.46 11 San José 2 252 7 261 3.22 12 San Luis 2 913 77...
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Magdalena, San Andres Tenejapan, Tantoyuca, Zongolica, Chicontepec, Papantla, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Soteapan, Playa Vicente, Mecayapan y Coyutla, Benito Juárez...
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derived from the Mayan "Cuzamil" (also spelled "Cutzmil") or "Ah Cuzamil Peten" in full, which means "the island of swallows" (Spanish: Isla de las Golondrinas)...
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Tzalamabaj, San Lucas Toliman. Sr. Benito Pic directed the project. Sr. Pic's son, Don Oscar Pic Solís, eventually became the first re-elected mayor of San Lucas...
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La Libertad, El Petén MGML – Malacatán Airport – Malacatán, San Marcos MGMM (FRS) – Mundo Maya International Airport – Flores, El Petén MGPB (PBR) – Puerto...
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garrison, a part of Morgan's force then sailed to the Panama Isthmus where Fort San Lorenzo on the mouth of the Río Chagres stood. The fort was captured after...
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Verapaz Department; El Estor and Livingston, Izabal Department; and San Luis, Petén, where Naturaceites operates. Guatemala portal Geography portal Carlos...
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are protected by the Federal government, within Benito Juárez National Park (Parque Nacional Benito Juárez) located north of Oaxaca city. Most conservation...
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the Palms). The first Maya moved to the Peninsula circa 250 CE, from the Petén (today northern Guatemala), to settle the southeastern peninsula in the...
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15th-century Spanish priest, bishop, and writer Bartolomé de las Casas Flores, El Petén – Cirlio Flores Estrada, a Guatemalan physician Flores Costa Cuca – José...
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Tikal (category Maya sites in Petén Department)
located in the archeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in Petén Department, the site is part of Guatemala's...
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Tepehuán Revolt (1616–1620) New Spain Tepehuánes Victory Spanish conquest of Petén (c. 1618 – c. 1697) Part of Spanish colonization of the Americas New Spain...
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President-Intendant Ramón García León de Pizarro, backed by the Archbishop of Chuquisaca Benito María de Moxó y Francolí, was inclined to recognize the Seville Junta, but...
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Since l'Olonnais and Picard had visited Maracaibo, the Spanish had built the San Carlos de la Barra Fortress, 20 miles (32 km) outside the city, on the approach...
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Domingo Volume II . Military Mail Printing Office, Madrid 1884 Monción, Benito. Historical Relationship: From Capotillo to Santiago CLIO no. 81. 1948....
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rebellion under command of Benito Remigio Boves between october and December 1822, ended with the Navidad Negra massacre in San Juan de Pasto. A second rebellion...
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