Maya Contact Period

ethnic group

campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores

1521 conquest

conquest dating from 1511 to 1697

thumb|upright=1.35|Map of Lake Petén Itzá, showing location of Ixlu on the eastern shore Ixlu () is a small Maya archaeological site that dates to the Classic and Postclassic Periods. It is located on the isthmus between the Petén Itzá and Salpetén lakes, in the northern Petén Department of Guatemala. The site was an important port with access to Lake Petén Itzá via the Ixlu River. The site has been identified as Saklamakhal, also spelt Saclemacal, a capital of the Kowoj Maya.

campaign in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica

Itzamkanac, also known as El Tigre, is an ancient Pre-Columbian city and archaeological Maya site located in the municipality of Candelaria in the state of Campeche, Mexico. Itzamkanac was the capital of the pre-Hispanic Acalan province ruled by the Chontal Maya or Putún Maya until the arrival and encounter with the Spanish conquistadors.

The Kowoj [koʔwox] (also recorded as ''Ko'woh, Couoh, Coguo, Cohuo, Kob'ow and Kob'ox, and Kowo'') was a Maya group and polity, from the Late Postclassic period (ca. 1250–1697) of Mesoamerican chronology. The Kowoj claimed to have migrated from Mayapan sometime after the city's collapse in 1441 AD. Indigenous documents also describe Kowoj in Mayapan and linguistic data indicate migrations between the Yucatán Peninsula and the Petén region.

Ch'ol-speaking Maya people which inhabited northern Guatemala

Maya site in the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico