Cahal Pech is a Maya site located near the town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize.

The site was a palatial, hilltop home for an elite Maya family, and though the most major construction dates to the Classic period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back as 1200 BCE during the Early Middle Formative period (Early Middle Preclassic), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably Maya sites in Western Belize.

"[3] The name Cahal Pech, meaning "Place of the Ticks" in the Yucatec Maya language,[4] was given when the area was used as pasture during the first archaeological studies in the 1950s, led by Linton Satterthwaite from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Restoration was completed in 2000 under the leadership of Dr. Jaime Awe, Director of the National Institute of Archaeology (NICH), Belize.

[5] Other nearby Maya sites include Chaa Creek, Xunantunich, Baking Pot, and Lower Dover.