🌲 Tikal National Park

Guatemala · Americas · National Park · 17.22°N, 89.62°W

Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. One of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, it is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now the Petén Department in northern Guatemala. The site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

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Country	Guatemala
Continent / region	Americas
Protection type	🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)	17.22°N, 89.62°W · view on map

Tikal National Park is a national park in Guatemala, in Americas. The details of why Tikal National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More protected areas in Guatemala

Maya Biosphere Reserve · Trifinio Fraternidad biosphere reserve · Semuc Champey.

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