Petén Tourist Information

El Petén is the biggest and northernmost department of Guatemala. Besides providing its visitors with a multi facetted nature, it compells through its diversity of mayan sites being contructed acoording to a distinct syle.

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Flores
Flores is a town in Petén, Guatemala. The town proper is an island on Lago Petén Itzá, connected to land by a causeway, on the … Flores Tourist Information »
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Tikal
Tikal is a large archaeological site in the Guatemalan department of Petén. During the Classic Period it was one of the largest and most important of the Mayan cities. Tikal Tourist Information »
El Mirador is a large site of Mayan ruins in the Petén region of Guatemala. El Mirador Tourist Information »
El Remate is a small, relaxed little village on the east side of Lago Petén Itza. Some travelers looking for peace and quiet opt … El Remate Tourist Information »
San Andrés is a small town on the north shore of Lago Petén Itzá in Petén. San Andrés Tourist Information »
Cancuén is in over the border from Alta Verapaz in Peten of Guatemala. Cancuén Tourist Information »
San José is a small village on the north shore of Lago Petén Itzá in Petén. San José Tourist Information »
Nakbé is an early Maya archaeological sites located in Petén. Nakbé Tourist Information »
Melchor de Mencos is in Guatemala on the border with Belize and is usually a place that most travelers merely pass through, but … Melchor de Mencos Tourist Information »
El Peru, also known as Waká, is a Mayan ruin in Guatemala. More recently, it was identified as the long wondered about "Site Q", the source of many looted Maya objects. El Peru Tourist Information »
Nakum is an impressive Classic site that you can visit as either a round trip from Yaxhá or a one way continuing onward to Tikal. Nakúm Tourist Information »
San Miguel is a small village on the north shore of Lago Petén Itzá in Petén. San Miguel Tourist Information »
Yaxhá is a site of Mayan ruins in the Petén region of Guatemala. Yaxhá Tourist Information »
Poptun is a village in Guatemala's northern Petén region. Poptun Tourist Information »
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Petén Tourist Information is based on Petén by Simon Burchell, Dwayne Shreve, Stefan Ertmann, Claus Hansen, Peter Fitzgerald, Kai Kranz, Jim DeLaHunt, You.travel and others. Petén Tourist Information is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.