Lake Atitlán

Rank: Top 1000

Wonder Type: Natural

Country: Guatemala

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Lake Atitlán is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre mountain range. Lake Atitlán is renowned as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, and is Guatemala's most important national and international tourist attraction. German explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt called it "the most beautiful lake in the world," and Aldous Huxley famously wrote of it in his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay: "Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. It really is too much of a good thing. [More Details]