Central America Culture and Sights

The second largest Mayan site in the world, translated from Mayan to mean Submerged Crocodile. Set in lush rainforests near the New River, part of Lamanai's allure is the uniqueness of its location and...

A Mayan city that was abandoned in the 10th century. . Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most important sites of the Mayan civilization, were not excavated un...

An tropical rainforest concentrated on one little island. Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropi...

An exceptional variety of habitats are found here. Forming a bridge between the two continents of the New World, Darien National Park contains an exceptional variety of habitats – sandy beaches, rocky ...

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The flora and fauna of North and South American interbreed here. The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left their mark, has allowed the fauna and flora of ...

A volcanic tragedy. Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under a volcanic eruption c. A.D. 600. Because of the exceptional conditio...

Remnants of a prosperous Mayan state. Inhabited since the 2nd century A.D., Quirigua had become during the reign of Cauac Sky (723–84) the capital of an autonomous and prosperous state. The ruins of Qu...

One of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas. León Viejo is one of the oldest Spanish colonial settlements in the Americas. It did not develop and so its ruins are outstanding testimo...