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In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 417 inbound references to Petén Department, and connects out to wet season, Alta Verapaz Department and Flores.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It is catalogued under topics including Departments of Guatemala, Geography articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia and Petén Department.
Vinony links it to 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Flores
- Largest settlement
- Sayaxché
- Type
- Departmental
- Department of guatemala
- 35,854 km (13,843 sq mi)
- Urban
- 110,399
- Ethnicities
- Ladino , Mopan , Lacandon , Itza , Q'eqchi'
- Religions
- Roman Catholicism , Evangelicalism
- Time zone
- UTC-6
- Iso 3166 code
- GT-PE
- Languages
- Spanish
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Guatemala
- Country
- Guatemala
- Located in
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Flores
- Population
- 622409
- Area
- 35854
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Toledo District
- Official website
- www.guatemala.gob.gt/peten.php
- Image
- Tikal 3.jpg
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- Commons category
- Petén Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Petén Department
- inception
- 1866-05-08
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Petén Department
- native label
- Petén
- language used
- Mopan Maya
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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 (13,843 sq mi) it accounts for about one third of Guatemala's area. The capital is Flores. The population at the mid-2018 official estimate was 595,548.
Toponymy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petén Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.