Significant1524 – 1550 · 26 years

Spanish Conquest of Guatemala

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Guatemala · Central America

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Spanish conquest of Guatemala led by Pedro de Alvarado. Vicious campaigns against K'iche' and other Maya kingdoms, with Spanish aided by indigenous allies.

Belligerents3

Spanish Empire
Maya city-states
Kʼiche Maya

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 2

Battle of Quetzaltenango1524
Battle of Ututlan1524

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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