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San Francisco, Petén

municipality in Petén Department, Guatemala

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ796492 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Francisco (Spanish pronunciation: [saɱ fɾanˈsisko]) is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala. The municipality has a population of 8,066 people.

The San Francisco municipal government is led by mayor José Luis Pérez Lara (PP).

The municipality includes 11 communities:

San Francisco (pop. 2713)

San Juan de Dios (pop. 1118)

Santa Cruz (pop. 246)

Eben Ezer (pop. 229)

San José Pinares (pop. 203)

Nuevo San Francisco (pop. 144)

San Valentín las Flores (pop.

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The public source identifies “San Francisco, Petén” as municipality in Petén Department, Guatemala. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Francisco, Petén and municipality.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1118—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1828. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Francisco, Petén and municipality providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q796492. Authority coordinates are 16.802, -89.934. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1118.

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This entry incorporates text from “San Francisco, Petén” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.