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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 as the largest by area – at 35,854 km 2 (13,843 sq mi) it accounts for about one third of Guatemala's area.
National, departmental and municipal boundaries from the Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Guatemala (IDEG) website, a Guatemalan national geographic information system, whose data is on the public domain according to the Legislative Decree 42-2001 of the Congress of Guatemala.
The Petén Basin is a geographical subregion of the Maya Lowlands, primarily located in northern Guatemala within the Department of El Petén, and into the state of Campeche in southeastern Mexico. During the Late Preclassic and Classic periods of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology many major centers of the Maya civilization flourished, such ...
Pioneering archeologists started to clear, map and record the ruins in the 1880s. [18] In 1951, a small airstrip was built at the ruins, [16] which previously could only be reached by several days' travel through the jungle on foot or mule. In 1956 the Tikal project began to map the city on a scale not previously seen in the Maya area. [84]
Flores is the capital of the Petén Department, Guatemala's landlocked, northernmost department. The population was 45,560 in 2023. The population was 45,560 in 2023. Flores is the seat of the municipality of Flores (population 22,600).
La Libertad Airport (ICAO: MGLL) is an airport serving the town of La Libertad in Petén Department, Guatemala. It is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southwest of the town. The Tikal VOR-DME (Ident: TIK) is located 18.2 nautical miles (33.7 km) northeast of the airport. [3]
Melchor de Mencos is a municipality in the Petén Department of Guatemala with population 23,813. It is situated on the eastern border with Belize, and is the only major border crossing from Guatemala to Belize. The city was established in April 1960.
The Tayasal archaeological site is situated on a peninsula on Lake Petén Itzá a short distance to the north of the modern town of Flores, [3] separated from it by a 270-metre (890 ft) wide stretch of water, [4] and falls within the municipality of Flores, in the department of Petén in northern Guatemala. [5]