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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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