Place:Flores, Petén, Guatemala

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NameFlores
Alt namesCiudad Floressource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeCity
Coordinates16.91°N 89.89°W
Located inPetén, Guatemala
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Flores is the capital of the Petén Department, Guatemala's landlocked, northernmost department. The population is 13,700 (2003).

Flores is the seat of the municipality of Flores (population 22,600).

Its Catedral Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios y San Pablo Itzá is the cathedral episcopal see of the Apostolic Vicariate of El Petén (formerly a territorial prelature).

The old part of the city is located on an island on Lake Petén Itzá, connected to the mainland by a short causeway. On the mainland is the suburb Santa Elena and, to the West, the contiguous municipality of San Benito. The municipality of Flores also includes a wide swathe of rural territory stretching north from Lake Petén Itzá to the Mexican border.

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