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Northern Lowlands

The Northern Lowlands of stretch from the foothills of the Cuchumatanes, Chama, and Santa Cruz mountain ranges northwards, including the northern part of the Alta Verapaz department, the extreme north of El Quiché department, and all of Guatemala's extensive Petén department.
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is a large archaeological site in the department of Petén.

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is a town in Petén, . The town proper is an island on Lago Petén Itzá, connected to land by a causeway, on the other side of which lie the twin towns Santa Elena and San Benito.

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17°45′18″N 89°55′14″W / 17.75500°N 89.92056°W Pyramid at El MiradorEl Mirador is a large pre-Columbian Middle and Late Preclassic Maya settlement, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, .

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Uaxactún is in the Peten department of the Northern Lowlands of .

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is a Mayan archaeological site in near the Usumacinta River.

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16°26′45″N 90°17′45″W / 16.44583°N 90.29583°W The Central Plaza of .Dos Pilas is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in what is now the department of , .

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is an early Maya archaeological site located in the Petén department of the Northern Lowlands of .

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is a Maya site located in northern 's Petexbatun Basin, in the department of .

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is a town located in the southern portion of the Northern Lowlands in .

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is in on the border with and is usually a place that most travelers merely pass through, but it does have some stelae and zoomorphs in a square not far away.

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Seibal, known as El in Spanish, is a Classic Period archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the northern of , about 100 km SW of .

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is an ancient Maya ruin situated in southern Petén close to the departmental border with Alta Verapaz, in the Northern Lowlands of .

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is a city in the Peten department of the Northern Lowlands of .

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is a set of crystalline pools over the Río Cahabón in Alta Verapaz, .

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is a small village on the north shore of Lago Petén Itzá in the Petén department of the Northern Lowlands of .

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is a municipality in the department of El Petén in .

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is a municipality in the El Petén department of .

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Raxrujá is in the Northern Lowlands region of .

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is a small, relaxed little village on the east side of Lago Petén Itza.

Northern Lowlands

Latitude of centre
16.9° or 16° 54' north
Longitude of centre
-89.9° or 89° 54' west
Wiki­data ID
Q28913861
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Also Known As

  • Catalan: Terres baixes del nord (Guatemala)
  • English: Northern Lowlands (Guatemala)
  • Italian: Pianure settentrionali del Guatemala

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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Northern Lowlands. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.