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Places worth the detour in Petén Department

Detourmap lists 33 places in Petén Department, Guatemala, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Tikal. 17 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological28 Nature5
Places
33
Oldest
Dos Pilas 629
Little known
17 of 33
Share of Guatemala
38%

Petén Department 33

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Petén Department?

Tikal. Ruins of major ancient Maya city. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Petén Department?

33: 28 archaeological & historic sites and 5 nature & landscapes. 17 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Petén Department?

Dos Pilas, dated to 629. 2 of the 33 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Petén Department here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Petén Department if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Petén Department is a first-level division of Guatemala, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.