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Travel for Kids: Flores, Guatemala (562 words) |
 | Flores, situated on an island in Lake Peten Itza, is a sleepy town with a Caribbean sensibility, pastel-colored buildings, friendly people and a slow pace of life. |
 | Flores was once a Maya ceremonial center, by the 17th century it was a Spanish outpost, and today, it's the capital of Peten province. |
 | Guatemala also has many different kinds of hard woods which are used in delightful wood carvings of local animals jaguar, monkeys, armadillos, coatimundis small boxes and miniature canoes. |
| Flores, El Petén - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (109 words) |
 | Flores is the capital city of El Petén department of Guatemala. |
 | Flores serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality, with which it shares a name (population 22,594). |
 | The old part of the city is located on an island on Lake Peten Itza, connected to the mainland by a short causeway. |