Lake Atitlán is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre mountain range. It is in the Sololá Department of southwestern Guatemala. It is the deepest lake in Central America.
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⛰️ Highland spots ⛰️ Mountain spots Natural landscape spots 🏞️ Lake spots 🏖️ Beach spots 🏊 Swimming pool spots Body of water spots 🚢 Dock spots Landscape spotsLake Atitlan is certainly one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. Surrounded by a chain of majestic volcanoes, it extends over more than 130 km2 at an altitude of 1,550 m, here in a tropical climate. The descent towards the lake on a road cut in the wall offers a vertiginous spectacle. Around the lake Atitlán, cakchiquel and tzutuhils villages seem to live out of time.
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