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Isla de Flores is an island located in
Lake Petén Itzá Lake Petén Itzá (''Lago Petén Itzá'', ) is a lake in the northern Petén Department in Guatemala. It is the third largest lake in Guatemala, after Lake Izabal and Lake Atitlán. It is located around . It has an area of , and is some long a ...
, belongs to the
Petén Department Petén (from the Itza' language, Itz'a, , 'Great Island') is a Departments of Guatemala, department of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well as the largest by area at it accounts for about one third o ...
,
Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
. The city of
Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Administratively, it forms the largest island in the East Nusa Tenggara Province. The area is 14,250 km2. Including Komodo and Rinca islands ...
is located on this island, which is part of the head of this department, next to the town of Santa Elena de la Cruz. It was formerly known by the natives as "Noj Petén" (also written "Noh Petén") which means "Big Island". The Spanish conquerors destroyed Noj Petén in the , leaving it abandoned until the . It received the name Flores in honor of a prominent Guatemalan independence leader, called
Cirilo Flores The name Cirilo Flores can refer to: * Cirilo B. Flores, a 20th-21st Century American clergyman of the Catholic Church *, an important Guatemalan politician from the 18th and 19th Centuries {{Human name disambiguation ...
. The Island is located 127 meters above sea level, and is connected by a bridge to Santa Elena de la Cruz by a causeway.


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Geography of Guatemala } Guatemala is mountainous, except for the south coastal area and the vast northern lowlands of Petén (department), Petén department. The country is located in Central America and bounded to the north and west by Mexico, to the east by Belize ...
* Tayasal *
Spanish conquest of Petén The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala, conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. A wide lowland plain covered with dense rainforest, Petén co ...


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Mapa del Lago Peten Itzá, donde se encuentra la isla

Foto de la isla
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Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Administratively, it forms the largest island in the East Nusa Tenggara Province. The area is 14,250 km2. Including Komodo and Rinca islands ...