Petexbatún Lake

Petexbatún Lake

Petexbatún river near the site of Aguateca
Location Petén
Coordinates 16°25′57″N 90°11′14″W / 16.432381°N 90.187283°W / 16.432381; -90.187283 (Laguna de Petexbatún)
Primary inflows Riachuelo Aguateca, Riachuelo El Faisán
Primary outflows Río Petexbatún
Basin countries Guatemala
Surface area 5.4 km2 (2.1 sq mi)
Surface elevation 130 m (430 ft)

Petexbatún is a small lake formed by a river of the same name, which is a tributary of the La Pasion river. It is near Sayaxché, located in the southern area of the Guatemalan department of Petén.[1][2]

Archaeologists gave the name of Petexbatún State to a group of cities during the Classic period of the Maya Civilization that include Seibal, Itzan, Dos Pilas, Aguateca, Tamarindito, Punta de Chimino, Nacimiento, and others. This State was the first to be abandoned in the Late Classic, when the Maya Collapse occurred in a south to north pattern, although Seibal, may have been reoccupied by a foreign group, possibly the Putún Maya, according to the style of the Stelas in this period. The archaeological findings here have given a lot of information about the Collapse of the Classic Maya Civilization.

Notes

  1. "Wetland Inv - Guatemala" (xls). Ducks Unlimited. Retrieved 2008. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. PREPAC 2007

References

Demarest, Arthur A. (2006). The Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Maya Collapse. Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology series, vol. 1. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-1520-9. OCLC 63178772. 
Houston, Stephen D. (1993). Hieroglyphs and History at Dos Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73855-2. OCLC 25507968. 
PREPAC (2007-06-06). "Descripción de Lagunas de Guatemala" (pdf). Lagunas de Centroamérica. OIRSA. Retrieved 08-06-2010.  Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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