Laguna del Tigre National Park is located in northern Guatemala, in the municipality of San Andrés, Petén Department.

[1][2] It also has the status of Ramsar site because of its size, wealth and characteristics of its wetland ecosystem.

It is also included in the convention's Montreux Register of threatened wetland sites.

Large ranches were encouraged by the government in the 1960s, and from circa 2002, narcos laundered cash by buying land and cattle, and selling the meat for money that cannot be traced to drug activity.

Campesinos (small-scale farmers) have smaller plots and tend to grow food crops as well as pasture, whereas drug traffickers clear dozens of hectares which are rectangular, have long straight lines and tractor tyre marks may be seen.