The Mayan City of Tikal was one of the most important of the Mayan low lands. Tikal is one of the most impressing Mayan cities in the area; called the city of murmurs and voices according to Mayan terms. This extraordinary archaeological site, the pride of a whole civilization, is located in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve. It covers an area of 576-squared Km., of which only 16-squared km was defined for excavations and scientific study purposes. There have been important findings; enough to amaze any person involved and aware of a great city.

The archaeological site Tikal discovered in 1848 by some important people of the region such as Mr. Ambrosio Tut who later told Mr. Modesto Mendez Guerra so together directed a group of preliminary inspection to the area of Tikal. That was how interest arose, by means of the first maps and basic drawings that caused great impact and curiosity for some experts and Mayan area studious persons such as Alfred Mausdley, Gustave Bernoulli, Silvanus Morley; and many other important characters at that time.

Later and after verifying the cultural as natural wealth that it possesses the protected area of Tikal, it was declared a World Cultural Heritage by the, UNESCO, this happened in the year 1979, not without before being declared a National Park by the Government of Guatemala in the year 1956.

Therefore, Tikal is one of the maximum expressions of the style of the past and archaeological dimension, being also one of the biggest cities in the Pre-Hispanic World located in the northern department in Guatemala, Petén.