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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Holtun (category Maya sites in Petén Department)
    a Maya archaeological site located in the Petén Department of northern Guatemala on the road to Melchor de Mencos from Flores. The city had a long period...
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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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