PETÉN

pātānˈ, region, c.15,000 sq mi (38,850 sq km), N Guatemala. A humid expanse of dense, tropical hardwood forests interrupted by savannas and crisscrossed by ranges of hills, it is related geographically to SE Mexico and Belize rather than to the rest of Guatemala. The Usumacinta River system drains most of the region. Rainfall is very heavy. There are large, permanent lakes, notably Lake Petén Itzá. The region is relatively inaccessible and has been only partly developed. It produces lumber, chicle, and some rubber and cacao. The sparse population is mostly Native American. Flores is the chief town.

Once Petén was a center of the Old Empire of the Maya and had a dense agricultural population. It is noted chiefly today as the scene of large-scale excavations of great archaeological ruins, notably Tikal and Uaxactún. Although the Spanish nominally conquered the area and Cortés passed through it on his march to Honduras (1524–25), efforts at subjugation were sporadic until the Itzá tribe was driven out (1697) from their stronghold at Lake Petén Itzá.

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books on: PetEn  - 305 results

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1.
Forest Society: A Social History of Petaen, Guatemala
Book by Norman B. Schwartz; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990
Subjects: Chicle Industry--Guatemala--Petaen (Dept.), Indians Of Central America--Guatemala--Petaen (Dept.)--History, Ladino (Latin American People)--History, Mayas--History
Illustrations Tables 1:1 Population of Peten, 1714-1986 11 1:2 Modern land distances in Peten 13 1:3 Temperature and precipitation, Peten 18 2:1 Parishes in Peten, 1737-1819 47 2:2 Population of Peten...
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The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
Book by Grant D. Jones; Stanford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Itza Indians--Government Relations, Itza Indians--History--Sources, Itza Indians--Politics And Government, Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540, Spain--Colonies--America--Administration
...Bustamente, who then governed the presidio of Peten but wrote from Santiago de Guatemala...Marcos de Vargas Dorantes, the vicar of Peten Itza. 98. Ibid.; see also AGI, M 1032...state of the reductions and missions of Peten Itza, administered by the secular clergy...
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The Rise and Fall of Civilizations: Modern Archaeological Approaches to Ancient Cultures
Book by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Jeremy A. Sabloff; Cummings Publishing, 1974
Subjects: America--Antiquities, Civilization, Ancient, Indians--Antiquities
...producing Chixoy area remained within the Peten diffusion sphere and in the Chama district...144 . All of these influences from the Peten passed through strategically located Altar...importation of ceremonial items from the central Peten Longyear 1952: 32 , 68 , 70 .Another...
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Contemporary Archaeology: A Guide to Theory and Contributions
Book by Mark P. Leone; Southern Illinois University Press, 1972
Subjects: America--Antiquities, Archaeology, Indians--Antiquities
northeast Peten Longyear 1952: 32, 68, 70 . Tulum Site 14...note is the seemingly one-way trade between the Peten and Dzibilchaltun Site 15, Fig. 8 , where "literally thousands of Peten trade pieces pepper the Early Period deposits...
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An Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas
Book by David L. Lentz; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: America--Antiquities, Human Ecology--America--History, Indians--Antiquities, Indians--Land Tenure, Landscape Changes--America--History
...al. 1996 . The pollen record from Lake Peten Itza suggests that forest recovery commenced...from Lake Chilonche, in the savanna of Peten, suggests that reforestation didn't...following the arrival of Europeans in Peten Brenner et al. 1990 . Additional studies...
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Land Tenure Delegitimation and Social Mobility in Tropical Peten, Guatemala
Journal article by Charles Clark; Human Organization, Vol. 59, 2000
Subjects: Cooperatives, Deforestation, Land tenure, NGOs, Nongovernmental organizations, Peten Guatemala, Property rights
...Delegitimation and Social Mobility in Tropical Peten, Guatemala by Charles Clark Stable land...of Guatemalas tropical department of the Peten (see Figure 1) illustrates the tragic...a single property rights regime in the Peten--be it state, private, communal...
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The Environmental Impacts of International Finance Corporation Lending and Proposals for Reform: A Case Study of Conservation and Oil Development in the Guatemalan Peten
Journal article by Ian A. Bowles, Amy B. Rosenfeld, Cyril F. Kormos, Conrad C.S. Reining, James D. Nations; Environmental Law, Vol. 29, 1999
Subjects: External debts--Management, International Finance Corp.--Finance, Petroleum industry--Finance
...conservation and oil development in the Guatemalan Peten. by Ian A. Bowles , Amy B. Rosenfeld...conservation measures undertaken in the northern Peten region of Guatemala, a brief history of...of the northern Guatemalan department of Peten and abutting Mexico to the north and west...
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NGO Landscapes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
Journal article by Juanita Sundberg; The Geographical Review, Vol. 88, 1998
Subjects: Biosphere--Analysis, Environmental protection--Analysis, Guatemala--Environmental aspects
...Guatemalas northernmost department (state), Peten, environmentalists and aid organizations...deforestation and land degradation in the Peten and excuse the neglect of wider socioeconomic...the same fate as Mexicos. Indeed, the Peten has lost approximately 50 percent of its...
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Migration to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: Why Place Matters
Journal article by David L. Carr; Human Organization, Vol. 67, 2008
Subjects: Consolidation, Developing countries--LDCs, Emigration, Environmental economics, Farms, Field study, Population growth, Reproductive health, Research, Rural development
...Yucatan Peninsula (Haenn 1999), and Guatemalas Peten (Schwartz 1995). A variety of hypotheses...Seasonal emigrants tended to work in southern Peten and Alta Verapaz, rather than the northern Peten where day labor is less lucrative (Carr 2000...
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Globalisation, Governmentality and Failure through the Prism of Petén, Guatemala
Journal article by Silvia Posocco; LSE Gender Institute. New Working Paper Series, 2008
Subjects: Peace negotiations, Research methodology
...Governmentality and Failure through the Prism of Peten, Guatemala by Silvia Posocco Introduction...the course of ethnographic research in Peten, northern Guatemala, to examine the analytical...and failure through the local prism of Peten aims to focus the analysis on situated...
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Peten Crafts a Future
Magazine article by Kathyrn Stafford; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, September 1994
Subjects: Peten, Guatemala--Environmental aspects, Sustainable forestry--Management
Peten crafts a future by Kathyrn Stafford In Guatemalas Maya Biosphere Reserve...ancient Maya of northern Guatemala called their island capital in Lake Peten Itza "El Peten," or the big island. This was the last refuge for the Itza, who had...
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Guatemala: Trading the Rainforest for Oil?
Magazine article by Robert Bryce; E, Vol. 5, February 1994
Subjects: Peten, Guatemala--Natural resources, Petroleum industry--Planning, Rain forests--Environmental aspects
...Guatemalas largest and northernmost state, the Peten, cover nearly two million hectares (nearly...more than 400 species of trees. But the Peten is also rich in oil. And like other Latin...doubled. So Guatemala recently opened the Peten to large scale oil exploration. But while...
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Growing Food and Friendship
Magazine article by Rose Lord; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, January 2007
Subjects: Agricultural assistance--Methods, Foreign agricultural assistance--Methods, Gardening--Methods, Peten, Guatemala--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects
...Atkinson, and I set out for the village of El Remate, in the Peten region of Guatemala, to introduce a program of nutrition education...known for its woodcrafts. It sits on the eastern shore of Lake Peten Itza, next to the main road that goes to the most popular tourist...
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A Forest Dies in Guatemala
Magazine article by Victor Perera; The Nation, Vol. 249, November 6, 1989
Subjects: Cerezo Arevalo, Marco Vinicio--Environmental policy, Deforestation--Guatemala, Ecology--Guatemala, Guatemala--Environmental aspects, Rain forest ecology--International aspects
...hardwoods in Guatemalas northern region of El Peten. The largest of nine sawmills licensed to operate in Peten, the Aserradero del Norte ("Sawmill of...protecting their harvests in Chiapas and El Peten. An active promoter of extractive reserves...
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Guatemala Guards Its Rain Forests
Magazine article by Victor Perera; The Nation, Vol. 253, July 8, 1991
Subjects: Guatemala--Environmental policy, Rain forests--Protection and preservation
...Biosphere Reserve in the northern region of El Peten that is becoming the blueprint for rain...the continuing negotiations to link the Peten with rain-forest reserves in southern...to create "extractive reserves" in the Peten for the sustainable exploitation of rain...
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`I Was Helpless' to Stop Rapists
Newspaper article by Karyn Spellman, Toni Marshall; The Washington Times, January 20, 1998
Subjects: St. Mary's College of Maryland
...accompanying 13 students on a 17-day tour of the Peten region of Guatemala. The gunmen, riding...trip arranged by St. Marys College to the Peten region of Guatemala. Students took preparatory...environment. The 17-day trip to the Peten region of Guatemala is to study the regions...
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The Mayan Attraction; after Years of Natural Disasters and Civil War, Guatemala Is at Last at Peace with Itself. and as Clemmie Hambro Discovers, It Is a Country Full of Potential, with Ancient Cultures, Great Shopping and Swathes of Jungle to Explore
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 22, 2005
...Tikal. Situated in the jungly, humid northern quarter of El Peten, these Mayan ruins are numerous, vast and goose-pimplingly...scaling temples, getting to NiTun Lodge on the edge of Lake Peten is like arriving at a friends house after a long journey. Bernie...
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Guatemalan Horror Relived
Newspaper article by Michael Riley; The Washington Times, April 16, 1998
Subjects: Guatemala
...to Guatemala City from an outing in the northern province of Peten when four men traveling in a pickup truck and armed with semiautomatic...Attorney Generals Office. It was the colleges third study tour to Peten, a sparsely populated wilderness that makes up one-third...
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5 St. Mary's Students Raped in Guatemala
Newspaper article by Kristan Trugman; The Washington Times, January 19, 1998
Subjects: Guatemala, St. Mary's College
...Maryland college, on a study tour in the northern province of Peten, was returning to Guatemala City from an excursion when a pickup...Mrs. OBrien said. It was the colleges third study tour to Peten, a sparsely populated wilderness that makes up a third of Guatemalan...
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BACK TO THE JUNGLE; and This Time It's Luxurious! I'm A Celebrity Winner CAROL THATCHER Explores the Wilds of Central America . .
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 16, 2006
...new jungle retreat. At La Lancha lodge on the shores of Lake Peten in northern Guatemala, diminutive TV presenters are nowhere...relished a glass of the house chardonnay. The area around Lake Peten is home to the magnificent Mayan site of Tikal with its five...
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PetÉn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETEN patan , region, c.15,000 sq mi (38...are large, permanent lakes, notably Lake Peten Itza. The region is relatively inaccessible...American. Flores is the chief town. Once Peten was a center of the Old Empire of the Maya...
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YucatÁn , Peninsula, North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mexico; the country of Belize ; and part of Peten , Guatemala. Merida , Campeche , and Cancun...rivers are those flowing E and NW from Peten. Climate In the northern half of the tableland...of tropical hardwoods in SW Campeche, Peten, and Belize provide the basis for a lumber...
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ItzÁ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ITZA etsa , Maya of Yucatan (Mexico) and Peten (Guatemala). Probable founders of Chichen Itza , which they...514 to 1194, they moved (1450?) S from Campeche to Lake Peten. Here, in spite of sporadic attempts by the Spanish to convert...
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Guatemala , Country, Central America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...highlands is the Pacific coastal lowland. North of them are the Caribbean lowland and the vast tropical forest known as Peten . Lake Peten Itza is in N central Guatemala. The largest river is the Motagua, which flows into the Caribbean at the port of...
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Flores , Town, Guatemala
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...town, Guatemala flor s, town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Peten department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Peten Itza and on the site of the Itza Mayan city of Tayasal. Tayasal was not...
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