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Petén or
Peten may
refer to:
Petén Department, a
department of
Guatemala Petén Basin, the geographical/archaeological
region of
Mesoamerica and a center...
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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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Flores is the
capital of the
Petén Department, Guatemala's landlocked,
northernmost department. The po****tion was 45,560 in 2023.
Flores is the seat...
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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...
- Lake
Petén Itzá (Lago
Petén Itzá,
Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlaɣo
peˈten iˈtsa]) is a lake in the
northern Petén Department in Guatemala. It is the third...
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native to the
Péten region of
northern Guatemala and
parts of Belize. The
majority of Itza are
inhabitants of the city of
Flores on Lake
Petén Itzá, and nearby...
- The
Spanish conquest of
Petén was the last
stage of the
conquest of Guatemala, a
prolonged conflict during the
Spanish colonisation of the Americas. A...
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sizeable expedition to Honduras,
cutting across southern Campeche, and
through Petén in what is now
northern Guatemala. In 1527
Francisco de
Montejo set sail...
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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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Petén Basin is a
geographical subregion of the Maya Lowlands,
primarily located in
northern Guatemala within the
Department of El
Petén, and into...
