San Andrés is a municipality in the department of El Petén in Guatemala.

The municipality is formed by the town of San Andrés, located on the north-western shore of Lake Petén Itzá, and 55 rural communities, with a total population of 20,295 people (census 2002).

[1] The municipality was created in 1962 and has a territory 8,874 km2, equivalent to 25% of the department of El Petén.

In the 1990s, more than 93% (8,288 km2) of the municipality's territory was declared protected nature reserve by the central government.

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