San Andrés is a municipality in the department of El Petén in Guatemala. The municipality is formed by the town of San Andrés, located on the north-western...
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Comerford, Simon C. (1996). "Medicinal Plants of Two Mayan Healers from San Andrés, Petén, Guatemala". Economic Botany. 50 (3): 327–336. ISSN 0013-0001....
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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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authority over Petén would pass to the Dominican Order. Between 1703 and 1753, reducciones were established at San José and San Andrés on Lake Petén Itzá, Santa...
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El Salvador San Andrés, El Petén San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango San Andrés Sajcabajá, El Quiché San Andrés Semetabaj, Sololá San Andrés Villa Seca,...
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y Arizmendi, began to build a road from Campeche south towards Petén. Franciscan Andrés de Avendaño followed the new road as far as possible then continued...
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the Orange Walk District of Belize Carmelita, Petén, settlement in the municipality of San Andrés, Petén Department of Guatemala Carmelita Hinton (1890–1983)...
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Laguna del Tigre (category Petén–Veracruz moist forests)
National Park is located in northern Guatemala, in the municipality of San Andrés, Petén Department. Covering an area of 337,899 ha, makes it the largest core...
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goods from such distant places as the present territories of Petén and Belize. San Andrés collapsed as a political center towards end of the 9th century...
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San Isidro in the province of Heredia San José, Petén San José, Escuintla San José Acatempa San José Chacayá San José El Idolo San José La Arada San José...
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unconquered Petén Basin, in the extreme south of the peninsula. The Spanish only achieved dominance in the north and the polities of Petén remained independent...
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Señores "Ik": Investigaciones recientes en sitios satélites de Motul de San José, Petén" (PDF). XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en 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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Kan Ekʼ (category Kings of Motul de San José)
the Itza Maya kings at their island capital Nojpetén upon Lake Petén Itzá in the Petén Department of Guatemala. The full title was Aj Kan Ekʼ or Ajaw...
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Nojpetén (category History of Petén)
spelled Noh Petén, and also known as Tayasal) was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom of Petén Itzá. It was located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in...
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Spanish conquest of Guatemala (section Cortés in Petén)
most powerful polity in the Petén lowlands of northern Guatemala, centred on their capital Nojpetén, on an island in Lake Petén Itzá. The second polity in...
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were nonetheless forcibly resettled near Lake Peten Itza at San Luis, Dolores, Santa Ana, San Andrés, San José, and Santo Toribio in 1700–1713 (Schwartz...
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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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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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groups in the Lacandon Jungle. These Lacandon Maya came from the Campeche/Petén area (north-east of Chiapas) and moved into the Lacandon rain-forest at...
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the lowlands of the Golfo Dulce and those of southern Petén, and even those of northern Petén, as far as Yucatán, was a matter of discussion between...
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Sacatepéquez 56 San Cristóbal Verapaz 16,445 Alta Verapaz 57 San Andrés Itzapa 16,350 Chimaltenango 58 Chicacao 16,154 Suchitepéquez 59 Flores 16,122 Petén 60 Panzós...
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of La Paz Centro July 16, 1927 Battle of Ocotal July 25, 1927 Battle of San Fernando July 27, 1927 Battle of Santa Clara September 19, 1927 Battle of...
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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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to the southwest, Yucatán to the northeast, Quintana Roo to the east, by Petén department of Guatemala to the south and by the Orange Walk District of...
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filmed at Eyipantla Falls, located in San Andrés Tuxtla. Other filming by second-unit crews took place in El Petén, Guatemala. The film was originally slated...
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TG-AMA) was destroyed by fire at El Petén Airport, Tikal. On November 18, 1975, Douglas C-47 TG-AGA crashed within Petén Department whilst on a passenger...
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Chinamita (category History of Petén)
century, the Territory probably lay along the Mopan River in the eastern Petén Basin and neighbouring portions of western Belize, being thereby situated...
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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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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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