As fir the artistic manifestations, the most abundant are the graven stones. They are located throughout the whole archeological area and they still present inapprehensible features. Another interesting manifestation is a carved monolith, which has two common animals for our country: the jaguar and the lizard. There were also discovered nine stone sculptures located in the monticule; they also found a fragment of what appears to be a ceremonial staff, in the water supply tank. Due to the big importance that water had for the Indians, these left some carved stones with spirals shapes that symbolize this precious liquid.

Thanks to the discoveries made here, archeologists can determine that the pre-Columbian city was occupied by a variety of specialized people, they were probably directed by a chief, who practice political and religious power all over the region. What is still unknown is why the abandonment or extermination of this pre-Columbian group before the Spanish Conquest. Among the given hypothesis of this disappearance are: diseases and wars.

Anastasio Alfaro, an explorer and naturalist, who discovered (at the end of the last century) some archeological features in Guayabo. After several years of pillage and vandalism in 1968 archeologist Carlos Aguilar Piedra, starts systematic digging to rescue that cultural patrimony.

The Monument provides a specialized tourist guide, who explains history all the way over the trails. The tour through the paths last between 40minutes and an hour. It has 20 divisions that facilitate the comprehension of the place: flora, fauna, and representative elements of the place (monticules, monoliths, roadways, aqueducts, etc.)

Even though natural richness is not a main element in Guayabo Monument it has his own characteristics. First it is a rainy forest; it has thick foliage, which is always green. Among the forest species you can find magnolia, Maria’s cedar, etc. they are covered by big amounts of small plants such as orchids.

Some birds are distinguished among the fauna: toucans, carpenter birds, parrots. There are also some mammals such as armadillos, rabbits, coyotes, slowpokes, and squirrels. Another frequent animal species are snakes, frogs, lizards and butterflies.

Nevertheless this monument importance does not come from the flora and fauna, but from its archeological value. This place holds memories and history of a not well know era. But thanks to the protection we are able to research and get to know our past.

In the park you will find a label written by Seathl Chief (1854) with this message “you must show your kids that this soil that they step now represent our grand parents’ ashes. Teach them that the ground is filled with our own blood and we must respect it… the land does not belong to the mankind, we belong to the land…everything lived by the land will occur to the world’s offspring. The men did not write life’s design, they are just a pen.