Motul de San José

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Motul de San José is an ancient Maya site located in just north of Lake Petén Itzá in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands. It is located from a few kilometres from the modern village of San José, in Guatemala's northern department of Petén. It was an important political and economic centre during the Late Classic (650-950 C.E.), although its exact role in the Maya region is still unclear.

There is a glyphic record that sometime before AD 731 a lord of Motul was captured by a lord of Machaquilá.

It is recorded on Seibal Stela 10 as being one of the four paramount polities of around AD 849, along with Calakmul and Tikal.

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