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Write the continuation of this text: Verapaz - or Vera Paz - (from Latin, it means "true peace") was a region of the Captaincy General of Guatemala. It was originally known as Tezulutlán (Spanish: "war zone") because indigenous peoples who resisted the Spanish conquest took refuge in that region...<end_of_turn>
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In the 1520s; However, it was peacefully conquered by Dominican friars led by Brother Bartolomé de Las Casas, in the 1540s, and that is why it was renamed Verapaz (Latin: true peace).

On November 4, 1825, after the Independence of Central America, it was converted into a department, and then included the district of Petén, which had diffuse borders with Yucatán - then an independent state - and Belize due to the thickness of its jungle. Petén became an independent district in 1839.<end_of_turn><eos>