The Mayan City Quirigua is located in the Montagua River Valley; brought to light thanks to the articles published by the press due to the visit of John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood to the Mayan City. This trip came to be from the relationship of their work “Incidentes de Viaje en Centro America Chiapas & Yucatan” in which the drawings of the stelaes E & F were published. Stephens took advantage of the situation to negotiate the Ruins of Quirigua with the at the time owner’s children (the name is unknown). Later it became property of the Unite Fruit Company, who deforested almost the entire property to produce plantain and banana, being 1910 it and recognized as an archaeological Park, the same 74 acres have to be preserved to perpetuity including the woodland areas.

Their acme developed between the years of 550 and 850 A.D. during which existed a rivalry with the neighbouring Copan, Subjecting it in the year 738 A.D. During these years, the majority of the structure and stelaes were erected in the site of which stelae E stands out with a height of about 11mts, which, by the way represents Cauak Cielo the Governor of Quirigua.

Declared a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1973, is of great relevance to the conservation so it is relevant to prepare the visitor for their encounter with a glorious past. This is why many attempts to impel a visitors centre, in which an area of 150.90mts2 was developed with the purpose to graphically expose the history and discovery of the Mayan City. This way the visitors wick know that it is a Classic Period City and the dynamic that made it flourish as decay and also the relationship with other site with the same cosmological and ritual relationship of its urban centre.

Scheduled Visit time

Monday trough Sunday
7:00am – 4:00 pm.