Theme Week Guatemala – Tikal National Park

26 October 2021 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  9 minutes

Tikal Plaza and North Acropolis © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-3.0

Tikal Plaza and North Acropolis © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-3.0

Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Petén, the site is part of Guatemala’s Tikal National Park and in 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.   read more…

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