Archaeological Sites in Guatemala
City/town/settlement in Guatemala (61)
Acrópolis Aguateca
Aguateca is a Maya archaeological site located in northern Guatemala's Petexbatun Basin in the department of Petén. The center was occupied from approximately 200 B.C. until about…
Balberta
Balberta is a major Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of southern Guatemala, belonging to the Maya civilization. It has been dated to the Early Classic…
Bilbao
Bilbao is a Mesoamerican archaeological site about 1 mile from the modern town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the Escuintla department of Guatemala. Bilbao was a major centre…
Cancuén
Cancuén is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Pasión subregion of the central Maya lowlands in the present-day Guatemalan Department of…
Chama
Chama is a small Late-Classic Maya highland site, situated in the Chixoy River valley of the Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala, some fifty kilometers north-west of San Pedro…
Chocolá
Chocolá is a Preclassic Southern Maya site whose developmental emphasis was from c. 1000 BC to AD 200. Chocolá is in the San Pablo Jocopilas municipality in the southern…
Chutixtiox
Chutixtiox is an archaeological site of the ancient Maya civilization near Sacapulas, in the Quiché department of modern Guatemala. The site has been dated to the Late Postclassic…
Cival
Cival is an archaeological site in the Petén Basin region of the southern Maya lowlands, which was formerly a major city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. The site…
Dos Pilas
Dos Pilas is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in what is now the department of Petén, Guatemala. It dates to the Late Classic Period, and was founded by an…
El Baúl
El Baúl is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in present-day Escuintla Department, Guatemala. El Baúl, along with the sites of Bilbao and El Castillo, is part of the…
El Ceibal
Seibal (El Ceibal) is a major Maya archaeological site in the Peten Department of Guatemala, first settled around 900 BC and spanning some 2,000 years of occupation. The largest…
El Mirador
El Mirador is a large pre-Columbian Middle and Late Preclassic Maya settlement, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén. El Mirador has white roads measuring 40…
El Perú
El Perú (also known as Waka'), is a pre-Columbian Maya archeological site occupied during the Preclassic and Classic cultural chronology periods (roughly 500 BC to 800 AD). The…
El Porvenir
A small Maya settlement 2 km northeast of the major centre of Piedras Negras, along the Usumacinta River in Guatemala's Peten department. Occupied from c. 500 BC through the…
El Temblor
El Temblor is an archaeological site in Petén Department, Guatemala which was once the location of a settlement of the Maya civilization. First recorded in 1974 by Ian Graham of…
El Tintal
El Tintal is a Maya archaeological site in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, located about 25 km northeast of Carmelita. It is the second-largest site in the Mirador Basin,…
El Zotz
El Zotz is a Mesoamerican archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Petén Basin region around 20 kilometres west of the major center of Tikal and…
Holmul
Holmul is a major Maya archaeological site in the Peten region of Guatemala, continuously occupied from 800 BC to 900 AD. First scientifically excavated by R.E. Merwin in 1911, it…
Isla Principal Topoxte
Topoxte is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the Petén Basin in northern Guatemala with a long occupational history dating as far back as the Middle Preclassic. As the…
Ixkun Mayan Arqueológico Site
A major Maya archaeological site in the Peten Department of Guatemala, 6.5 km north of Dolores, occupied from the Preclassic through the Postclassic period. The site contains 51…
Ixlu
Located on the isthmus between Petén Itzá and Salpetén lakes in northern Guatemala, Ixlu was a major port city. The site controlled vital water trade routes via the Ixlu River to…
Ixtonton
Ixtonton is a Maya archaeological site in the department of Petén in northern Guatemala. It is located in the northwestern portion of the Maya Mountains in the municipality of…
Ixtutz
Ixtutz was a Classic Period Maya city in southeastern Petén, Guatemala, situated in the Poxte River valley within the western Maya Mountains. The site was inhabited from the…
Kaminal Juyu Parque Arqueológico
Kaminaljuyu is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization located in Guatemala City. Kaminaljuyu, when first mapped scientifically, comprised some 200 platforms and pyramidal…
Kinal
Kinal is a major pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the Petén Department of northern Guatemala. The site's major occupational phase dates to the Late Classic period…
La Blanca
La Blanca is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in San Marcos Department, western Guatemala, primarily occupied during the Middle Preclassic period (900–600 BC). The…
La Corona
La Corona is the name given by archaeologists to an ancient Maya court residence in Guatemala's Petén department that was discovered in 1996, and later identified as the…
La Joyanca
La Joyanca is the modern name for a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located south of the San Pedro Martir river in the Petén department of Guatemala. The site was…
La Muerta
La Muerta is a Maya archaeological site in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, located between the sites of El Mirador and El Tintal. It is located on a promontory 3.5…
Machaquila
Machaquila (or Machaquilá, using Spanish orthography) is a major ruined city of the Maya civilization in what is now the El Peten department of Guatemala. Machaquila is situated…
Mixco Viejo
Mixco Viejo, occasionally called Jilotepeque Viejo, is an archaeological site in the north east of the Chimaltenango department of Guatemala, some 50 kilometres to the north of…
Montana
Montana is a Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of southern Guatemala. It is located in the department of Escuintla, near Balberta, and is one of the…
Naachtun
Naachtun is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, situated at the northeastern perimeter of the Mirador Basin region in the southern Maya lowlands, now in…
Nakbe
Nakbe is one of the largest early Maya archaeological sites. Nakbe is located in the Mirador Basin approximately 13 kilometers south of the largest Maya city of El Mirador. The…
Naranjo
Naranjo (Wak Kab'nal in Mayan) is a Pre-Columbian Maya city in the Petén Basin region of Guatemala. It was occupied from about 500 BC to 950 AD, with its height in the Late…
Nixtun-Ch’ich
An Itza Maya archaeological site on a peninsula extending into Lake Peten Itza in Guatemala's Peten Department, covering approximately one square mile. It features the only known…
Pajaral
Pajaral, otherwise known as El Pajaral, is the modern name for a mid-sized ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located to the south of the San Pedro Martir…
Parque Arqueológico Uaxactun
Uaxactun is an ancient Maya ceremonial center in the Peten department of Guatemala, located 19 km north of Tikal within the Maya Biosphere Reserve. In 378 AD, the warrior Siyaj…
Parque Arqueológico Zaculeu
Zaculeu or Saqulew is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the highlands of western Guatemala, about 3.7 kilometres outside the modern city of Huehuetenango. Occupation at…
Piedras Negras
Located on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in Petén, northwestern Guatemala, Piedras Negras (Maya name Yo'k'ib') was one of the most powerful ancient Maya urban centers of…
Punta de Chimino
Punta de Chimino is a Maya archaeological site in the Petexbatún region of the department of Petén in Guatemala. Occupation at the site dates to the Preclassic and Classic periods…
Quirigua (Parque Arqueológico y Ruinas de Quiriguá)
Quiriguá is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. It is a medium-sized site covering approximately 3 square kilometres along…
Qʼumarkaj
Qʼumarkaj is an archaeological site in the southwest of the El Quiché department of Guatemala. Qʼumarkaj is also known as Utatlán, the Nahuatl translation of the city's name.…
Río Azul
Río Azul is an archaeological site of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is the most important site in the Río Azul National Park in the Petén Department of northern…
Sacul
Sacul is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the upper drainage of the Mopan River, in the Petén department of Guatemala. The city occupied an important…
San Bartolo
San Bartolo is a small pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in Guatemala's Petén Department, northeast of Tikal and roughly fifty miles from the nearest settlement. The site…
San Clemente
San Clemente (also known as Chichantun) is a Classic-period Maya site in El Peten, Guatemala, approximately 55 km from Flores. Its core covers about 60,000 sq m and includes an…
Sitio Arqueológico El Chal
El Chal is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the upper San Juan River valley of the southeastern Petén Basin region, Guatemala. El Chal was occupied from…
Sitio Arqueológico Iximche
Iximcheʼ is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. It served as the capital of the Late Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya kingdom from…
Sitio Arqueológico La Blanca, Peten
La Blanca is a Maya pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the municipality of Melchor de Mencos in the northern Petén Department of Guatemala. The site is located in…
Sitio Arqueológico Motul
Motul de San Jose, known anciently as Ik'a' ('Windy Water'), is an ancient Maya civic-ceremonial centre north of Lake Peten Itza in Guatemala's Peten department. First settled…
Takalik Abaj National Park
Takalik Abaj is representative of the first blossoming of Maya culture that had occurred by about 400 BC. Takalik Abaj was a sizeable city with the principal architecture…
Tamarindito
Tamarindito is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization situated along an escarpment in the Petén department of Guatemala. During the Early Classic period (c. 300–600 AD),…
Tayasal
Tayasal is a Maya archaeological site located in present-day Guatemala. It was a large Maya city with a long history of occupation. The site was occupied from the Middle…
Tres Islas
Tres Islas is a small pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site 20 kilometres north of Cancuen in Petén Department, northern Guatemala. The main feature of the site is a group of…
Ucanal
Ucanal is a major Maya archaeological site located inside a bend of the Mopan River in the Peten department of Guatemala, founded between 1000 and 400 BCE. The site contains 114…
Witzna
Witzna is a mid-sized archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, situated in the Petén Basin region of what is now northern Guatemala. Inscriptions discovered on…
Xultun
Xultún is a large Maya archaeological site located 40 km northeast of Tikal and 8 km south of the smaller Preclassic site of San Bartolo in northern Guatemala. The site, which…
Yaxhá
The third-largest Maya city in Guatemala, located on the north shore of Lake Yaxha in the Peten Basin. The name means "blue-green water" in Mayan. First rediscovered by explorer…
Zacpeten
Zacpeten is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the northern Petén Department of Guatemala. The site of Zacpeten occupies a peninsula on Lake Salpeten in the Petén…
Zapote Bobal
Zapote Bobal is the modern name for a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located south of the San Pedro Martir river in the Petén department of Guatemala. The name Zapote…
Archaeological site in Guatemala (5)
Arroyo de Piedra
Arroyo de Piedra is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in Guatemala located approximately 2-3 km east/northeast of Dos Pilas and 3 km west of Tamarindito. The site dates to…
Bejucal
Bejucal is a Maya archaeological site located in the Petén Department of northern Guatemala, within the San Miguel La Palotada biotope in the municipality of San José. It is…
Chitinamit
Chitinamit is an archeological site of the Maya civilization in the highlands of Guatemala. It has been identified as Jakawitz, the first capital of the K'iche' Maya. The site is…
Cotzumalhuapa
The Cotzumalhuapa archaeological zone is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological zone dating mainly to the Late Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology, although it was occupied…
Wajxaklajun
Wajxaklajun is a Classic period Maya ruin in the highlands of Guatemala near San Mateo Ixtatán. It is the most important archaeological site in the San Mateo Ixtatán area. The…
Temple complex in Guatemala (2)
Kʼatepan
Kʼatepan, also known as Yolchonabʼ, is an archaeological site of the ancient Maya civilization located 1 kilometre to the east of the modern town of San Mateo Ixtatán, in the…
Sitio Arqueológico Altar de Los Sacrificios
Altar de Sacrificios is a Maya ceremonial centre at the confluence of the Pasion and Salinas rivers in Peten, Guatemala, where they combine to form the Usumacinta. First…
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