UNESCO World Heritage for Guatemala

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 3 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Guatemala to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Guatemala for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Guatemala below.


1979 - Antigua Guatemala
1979 - Tikal National Park
1981 - Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua


Antigua Guatemala

Tikal National Park

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Guatemala are shown below - click on the links for more details.


Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

2008 - Language, dance and music of the Garifuna
2008 - Rabinal Achí dance drama tradition