To Lake Atitlan and the San Buenaventura Valley in Panajachel, Guatemala.  The valley has seen tremendous transformations from an ancient Mayan village at the end of the 1700s to a sugarcane plantation in the mid 1800s to a coffee plantation in the early 20th Century and, finally, in 1995 to a Nature Reserve that opened with the butterfly preserve and the nature trails.  By 1997, the Nature Reserve opened its first visitor center.  The waterfall hanging bridges were inaugurated in 1999, the new Visitor Center a couple of years later and in 2006 the Ziptrek, Cables X-Tremos, opened to the public. 

Today, the Nature Reserve is a privileged place to enjoy the magnificent natural setting of the Lake Basin.  Through its outreach programs and the sponsoring of “Todos por el Lago” [Everyone for the Lake], the Reserve is a place to talk about our common future. Our goal is to maintain the living communities and their surroundings so that future generations can have access to this extraordinary legacy.