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Petexbatún
Petexbatún is a region of the south-western Petén in Guatemala, around Lake Petexbatún and the river of that name, a tributary of the Pasión. In the Late Classic period it was dominated by a Maya kingdom ruled from Dos Pilas and later Aguateca, which conquered Ceibal in 735. The kingdom broke up in endemic warfare after about 760, and Aguateca was burned around 810, a well-studied case of the Classic Maya collapse.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Petexbatún. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/petexbatun
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