Petexbatún

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lake_name = Petexbatún Lake
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location = Petén
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inflow = Riachuelo Aguateca
Riachuelo El Faisán
outflow = Río Petexbatún
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elevation =110 m
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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. [cite journal
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title =Wetland Inv - Guatemala
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Archaeologists gave the name of "Petexbatún State" to a group of cities during the Classic period of the Maya Civilization that include Seibal, Itzán, Dos Pilas, Aguateca, Cancuén, 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, was reoccupied by the Putún Maya or Toltec groups, according to the style of the Stelas in this period, the experts agree that they were not "Classic Maya". The archaeological findings here have given a lot of information about the Collapse of the Classic Maya Civilization.

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References

: cite book |author=aut|Demarest, Arthur A. |authorlink=Arthur Demarest |year=2006 |title=The Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Maya Collapse |series=Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology series, vol. 1 |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |isbn=978-0-8265-1520-9 |oclc=63178772: cite book |author=aut|Houston, Stephen D. |authorlink=Stephen D. Houston |year=1993 |title=Hieroglyphs and History at Dos Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |isbn=0-292-73855-2 |oclc=25507968

External links

* [http://authenticmaya.com/aguateca.htm Aguateca and the Petexbatún State, History and Galleries]