Petén (from the itz'a, Noj Petén, 'Great Island') is a department of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well...

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...

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...

Collectif 2011, p. 8. Collectif 2011, p. 9. SEGEPLAN. "Municipios del departamento de El Petén". Secretaría General de Planificación (in Spanish). Guatemala....

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...

Regional del Sureste de Petén ("Southeastern Petén Regional Museum") is an archaeological museum in the town of Dolores in the Petén Department of Guatemala...

(PDF) on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2015. "Municipios del Departamento de El Petén". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original...

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...

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...

northeastern Guatemala that flows through the Petén Basin region in the departamento (department) of El Petén towards the border with Belize. A number of...

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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...

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...

eastern Guatemala, near Honduras. He dug in the ruins of Matxakila, in the Petén jungle. He studied hieroglyphic texts at Ek Balam, about 50 kilometers from...

Honduras, to the east by Honduras, and by the Guatemalan departments of Petén to the northwest, Alta Verapaz to the west, and Zacapa to the south. The...

elite lineages. In the southern Yucatán and central Petén, kingdoms generally declined; in western Petén and some other areas, the changes were catastrophic...

Verónica (2008). Administración del riesgo. Municipio de Sayaxché, departamento de Petén (PDF) (in Spanish). Guatemala: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de...

By 1528, the conquest of Guatemala was nearly complete, with only the Petén Basin remaining outside the Spanish sphere of influence. The last independent...

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...

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...

The Republic of Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (Spanish: departamentos) which in turn are divided into 340 municipalities. The departments are...

November 1981, p.1; "Ejercito entrena campesinos para la defensa de los departamentos", Prensa Libre, 21 November 1981, p. 66 M. Drouin, "To the Last Seed:...

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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in 1524. Most of the great Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned by the year 1000 AD...

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...

Discurso pronunciado el 2 de abril de 1930. El libro de Guatemala grande: Petén-Belice. Guatemala: Tipografía nacional. 1947. Los dos brujitos mayas: el...

Patrimonio Cultural y Natural; Instituto de Antropología e Historia; Departamento de Monumentos Prehispánicos y Coloniales. Archived from the original...

Quetzaltenango – Monique Aparicio Miss Guatemala Internacional 2011 Departamento Guatemala – Christa García First Runner-Up Sacatepéquez – Alessandra...

There were regions that were not subjugated to Spanish rule, such as the Petén and the Mosquito Coast, and the English took advantage of weak Spanish control...