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The Ecological Park Hun Nal Ye, is located in the extreme northwest of San Pedro Carcha Municipality in the departament of Alta Verapaz, at 300 meters of the level of the sea with a hot tropical rainy climate. It's a private natural reserve with an area of 135 hectares that possesses more than 170 species of trees, 200 species of birds, 25 species of mammals, 20 species of amphibians, 23 of reptiles and an impressive quantity of insects including some very rare species.

The park have impressive natural attractions and a diversity of activities of adventure and observation of the nature. One of the most important activities in the Park is the birds watching.

The Park HunNal Ye is to 271 kilometres from the City of Guatemala, 53 kilometers from Cobán city and to 42 kilometres from Chisec, which 11.5 km. are of dirt track.

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How to get there from Cobán.

To come to the Park Hun Nal Ye, going out of Cobán city, you must direct for the Street Minerva at the level of the Mall Plaza Magdalena, you will have to look for the north course, which is the exit to Chisec and to Petén the Road RD-09.

The road RD-09 is paving but sinuous, with closed and hanging moderately pronounced curves, with a speed of not major design of 50 kilometres per hour; it develops in one of the prettiest landscapes of the high lands of Alta Verapaz, passes for rural communities formed by smallholders of land generally queqchíes, and for coffee estates, ranchers and plantations of cardamomo.

They will be 47.5 kilometres of road paved in good condition, passing for Sachichaj, Cubilguitz between other populations up to the entry to the Community Samanzana that is located in the kilometre 259.5 of the road RD-09 that leads from Cobán to Chisec, of the right side of the road.

Of this point it begins the dirt track up to the entry of the Park. Approximately to 6 kilometres will find the community Samanzana where you will have to cross towards the right more or less one kilometre, then it returns to the initial course approximately 5 kilometres until San Vicente Chicatal and approximately 500 meters come to the community more the entry to the Park, which is suitably put up signs.

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