Original: Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands , Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550 , there were only some 1,550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces .
Simplified: But except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands , the Spanish had control over Yucatán itself already by 1546 .