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  Location within Guatemala | |
| Location | Sayaxché |
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| Region | Petén Department,  Guatemala |
| Coordinates | 16°31′35″N 90°25′22″W / 16.52639°N 90.42278°W |
| History | |
| Abandoned | mid-9th century AD |
| Periods | Late Classic |
| Cultures | Maya |
| Events | Conquered by: Dos Pilas |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1937, 1984–1986, 1997 |
| Archaeologists | Edwin Shook, Antonia Foias |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural styles | Classic Maya |
| This article is part of a series on the |
| Maya civilization |
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| Spanish conquest of the Maya |
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La Amelia is a Pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site near Itzan, in the lower Pasión River region of the Petén Department of Guatemala. It formed a polity in the Late Classic (AD 600 to 830), and was involved in the war between Tikal and Calakmul followed, in 650, by La Amelia's takeover by Dos Pilas. Two centuries of intermittent warfare followed until the area's population was so diminished by about 830, that this is considered the beginning of abandonment of Classic sites in the region.