El Rosario National Park () is located in
El Petén
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
,
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
, on the eastern edge of the town of
Sayaxché
Sayaxché () is a municipality in the El Petén department of Guatemala, on the Río La Pasión river. It covers an area of , and had 55,578 inhabitants at the 2002 Census; the latest official estimate (as at mid-2012) was 114,781 inhabitants.
Th ...
. (). The park is named after laguna El Rosario, a small lake within its boundaries, and was formerly a state owned finca managed by the National Forestry Institute (INAB).
In 1980 it was declared a national park. The park covers an area of 11.05 km
2, including the El Rosario lake, which has a surface area of 4
ha in the dry season, though it is considerably larger during the rainy season.
References
National parks of Guatemala
Protected areas established in 1980
Petén Department
Petén–Veracruz moist forests
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