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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department of El Petén in Guatemala. The municipality is formed by the town of San Andrés, located on the north-western shore of Lake Petén Itzá, and 55 rural...
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Poptún (category Municipalities of the Petén Department)
(PDF) on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2015. "Municipios del Departamento de El Petén". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original...
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8. Collectif 2011, p. 9. SEGEPLAN. "Municipios del departamento de El Petén". Secretaría General de Planificación (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from...
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Regional del Sureste de Petén ("Southeastern Petén Regional Museum") is an archaeological museum in the town of Dolores in the Petén Department of Guatemala...
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fourteen lakes runs across the central drainage basin of Petén. The largest lake is Lake Petén Itza; it measures 32 by 5 kilometres (19.9 by 3.1 mi). A...
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Maya civilization (section Central Petén)
The Petén region consists of densely forested low-lying limestone plain; a chain of fourteen lakes runs across the central drainage basin of Petén. To...
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Sayaxché (category Municipalities of the Petén Department)
Municipio de Sayaxché, departamento de Petén (PDF) (in Spanish). Guatemala: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala...
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mountainous, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén department. The country is located in Central America and bounded to the...
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El Mirador (category Maya sites in Petén Department)
AD) Maya settlement, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, Guatemala. It is part of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin of northern Guatemala...
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calendario de esta antigua civilización (in Spanish) Departamento de Historia de América II (Antropología de América) (in Spanish) Hoy, 9 de Febrero de 2018...
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elite lineages. In the southern Yucatán and central Petén, kingdoms generally declined; in western Petén and some other areas, the changes were catastrophic...
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Spanish conquest of Guatemala (section Cortés in Petén)
and their Petén Neighbors". In Prudence M. Rice; Don S. Rice (eds.). The Kowoj: identity, migration, and geopolitics in late postclassic Petén, Guatemala...
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New Spain (redirect from Virreinato de la Nueva España)
organization, the Consulado de Comercio. There were regions that were not subjugated to Spanish rule, such as the Petén and the Mosquito Coast, and the...
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the central highlands and the mountain ranges of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Sierra de Chuacús, and the foothills of the volcanic mountain range on...
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Guatemala (redirect from República de Guatemala)
and the Petén region, north of the mountains. All major cities are located in the highlands and Pacific coast regions; by comparison, Petén is sparsely...
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By 1528, the conquest of Guatemala was nearly complete, with only the Petén Basin remaining outside the Spanish sphere of influence. The last independent...
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city of the department is Cobán. Verapaz is bordered to the north by El Petén, to the east by Izabal, to the south by Zacapa, El Progreso, and Baja Verapaz...
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governmental decree on 8 May 1866, together with Huehuetenango, Izabal and Petén departments. In 1902 the eruption of the Santa María volcano in the neighbouring...
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departments of Petén to the northwest, Alta Verapaz to the west, and Zacapa to the south. The Izabal Department surrounds Lake Izabal (or Lago de Izabal), which...
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2 de abril de 1930. El libro de Guatemala grande: Petén-Belice. Guatemala: Tipografía nacional. 1947. Los dos brujitos mayas: el cuento-novela de la...
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Guatemala in 1524. Most of the great Classic-era (250–900AD) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned by the year 1000AD...
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departments of Alta Verapaz, Izabal, Petén, and San Marcos on August 6. Rainfall generated by the storm in Petén Department caused minor flood damage...
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resolved. ISO 3166-2:GT "Republica de Guatemala Departamentos de Guatemala". Servicio de Información Municipal de Inforpress. Archived from the original...
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Yucatán (redirect from Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán)
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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Perú), also known as the Protectorate of San Martín (Spanish: Protectorado de San Martín), was a protectorate created in 1821 in present-day Peru after...
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El Zotz (category Maya sites in Petén Department)
archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Petén Basin region around 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the major center of Tikal...
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Rivera (2013). "Determinación De La Subzonificacion De La Reserva De La Biosfera Sierra De Manantlan". Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales-IMECBIO...
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the Caribbean coast and the route from Copán to the major cities of the Petén Basin. As recorded on hieroglyphic inscriptions at Quiriguá, all dates are...
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The Miss Guatemala 2011 pageant was held on November 25, 2011 at Centro de Convenciones Ilumina in the capital city Guatemala City, Guatemala. This year...
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