Poptún

Poptún
Poptún
	Poptún Location in Guatemala
	Coordinates: 16°19′20″N 89°25′20″W / 16.32222°N 89.42222°W
Country	Guatemala
Department	El Petén
Government
• Mayor	Vicente Alfredo Gil Castillo (Viva)
Climate	Am

Poptún is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala. It covers an area of 1,128 km², and had a population of 35,663 at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid-2012) was 64,988. It is some 385 km from Guatemala City. Since 1989, Military Zone 23 in Poptún has been the home of the Guatemalan Army's elite Kaibiles special operations force.

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Poptún is in the southeast part of Petén Department and communicates with the rest of the Republic of Guatemala via a 100-km highway to Flores.

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^ "Elecciones de Guatemala de 2011" (PDF). Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Guatemala. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Municipios del Departamento de El Petén". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.

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acuerdo número 12-2019 - Tribunal Supremo Electoral16°19′19″N 89°25′19″W / 16.322°N 89.422°W / 16.322; -89.422

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[1] "Elecciones de Guatemala de 2011" (PDF). Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Guatemala. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

[segeplan-2] "Municipios del Departamento de El Petén". SEGEPLAN (in Spanish). Guatemala. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.

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v t e Petén Department
Capital: Flores
Municipalities	Dolores El Chal Flores La Libertad Las Cruces Melchor de Mencos Poptún San Andrés San Benito San Francisco San José San Luis Santa Ana Sayaxché

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Israel United States
Other	NARA

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