Naranjo (Wak Kab'nal in Mayan) is a Pre-Columbian Maya city in the Petén Basin region of Guatemala.

Because it occupies the top of a natural hill with a cave located inside, it is a perfect place to be categorized as a ‘sacred mountain’.

[7] In 1908 Maler excavated the hieroglyphic stairway from structure B-18,[6] parts of which are now housed in the British Museum[8] in London.

The problem worsened in the 1960s, when many of the site's large sculptures were smashed into fragments by looters in order to sneak them out of the country.

[1] In 2013, a building from about 600 AD was found at nearby Holmul with a giant stucco frieze showing a central ruler and two flanking ones in repose.

Below it runs a long inscription from which it appears that the construction was commissioned by Aj Wosal of Naranjo.

[9] The history of Naranjo includes several major disturbances in the dynastic rule when allegiances and identities of local kings were subject to change.

[5] The sites of La Sufricaya and Holmul to the north of Naranjo were involved in the establishment of the new political order in Peten after the arrival of Sihyaj K’ahk' in AD 378.

In 546 AD Naranjo came under the control of Calakmul whose ruler Tuun Kab Hix appointed Ah Wosaaj Chan Kʼinich.

Ah Wosaaj was involved in infrastructure improvements to the city such as the paving of a road in July 559, according to Altar 2.

Naranjo's final abandonment may have been the result of political turmoil and a severe drought dated to 810 AD.