Central America
Guatemala
Petén Department

Poptún

Poptún is a municipality in the El Petén department of . It covers an area of 1,128 km2, and had a population of 35,663 at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate was 64,988.
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  • Type: Town with 11,600 residents
  • Description: municipality of Petén Department, Guatemala
  • Also known as: “Poctum”, “Poctún”, “Poptun”, and “Santa Bárbara”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Poptún Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the town of Poptún in . The runway is within the town. There are low hills 2 kilometres south of the airport.

Poptún

Latitude
16.33012° or 16° 19′ 48″ north
Longitude
-89.41942° or 89° 25′ 10″ west
Population
11,600
Elevation
533 metres (1,749 feet)
IATA airport code
PON
United Nations Location Code
GT PON
Open location code
768G8HJJ+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1073096528
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3591181
Wiki­data ID
Q385588
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Poptún” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Poptún”
  • Cebuano: “Poptún”
  • Chinese: “Poptún”
  • Chinese: “波普通”
  • Dutch: “Poptún”
  • French: “Poptún”
  • German: “Poptún”
  • Italian: “Poptún”
  • Japanese: “ポプトゥン”
  • Lithuanian: “Poptunas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poptún”
  • Polish: “Poptún”
  • Portuguese: “Poptún”
  • Spanish: “Poptun”
  • Spanish: “Poptún”
  • Swedish: “Municipio de Poptún”
  • Swedish: “Poptún”
  • Urdu: “پوپتون”
  • “Poptún”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Poptún”. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.