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The department that inspired the Guatemalan writer, Virgilio Rodríguez Macal, to write the book The Serpent Bird House, turns it on this tour of our country.

The natural beauty is, without doubt, an important letter of introduction from the vast Peten region. This ecological heritage unparalleled in Central America is second only to the archaeological wealth that characterizes the Petén and has become one of the most interesting for world tourism.

In addition to its archaeological sites, we find here an extensive and varied wildlife, which is presented in all its beauty to those who dare to penetrate its dense forests.

The historical value of Petén occupation means that Mayan culture it was centuries ago, one which left a lasting imprint on the history and current life in Guatemala.

Millennial between history and tradition

Without doubt, Tikal is the most important prehistoric sites listed in Peten, but the list is longer than we can imagine: Yaxhá, Nakún, Nakba, Aguateka, Petexbatún, Piedras Negras and Ceibal, are considered first-order; so we left without including a plethora of places.

The department’s occupancy time practice was continued until the arrival of the Spanish, but not meant that the conquest was early. And is that Hernan Cortes passed through the region in 1502, on their way to Honduras, but after this, there were several attempts to “input” and “conversion” of the Spanish, but all failed.

It was not until 1697, when Martin Urzua and managed Arismendi itza’es the first reduction, specifically in “Noh Peten” in place of the present day island of Flores. Two years later he has consolidated the conquest of the center of the department, was achieved on the Mopan, apparently parallel to this process, that a number of other ethnic groups, residents, referred to by the chroniclers, was involved in a violent process of extinction. Read the rest of this entry »