Tikal Futura
High-Rise Buildings in Guatemala City
The Tikal Futura, formally Gran Tikal Futura Torres Sol y Luna is a modern shopping and business complex and hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Information
It is located at Calzada Roosevelt 22–43, in Zone 11 of the city. At 75 metres, as of 2009 it is the fourth tallest building in Guatemala City. The building covers a floor space of 193,680 m2, has 20 floors and was completed in 1997. The building has 2 towers with offices, 12 cinemas, 160 stores, 27 restaurants, parking space for 1500 cars and also the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel.
“Tikal Futura” enters the record as high-Rise Buildings in Guatemala City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tikal, Futura and High-Rise can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Tikal Futura” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tikal, Futura and High-Rise provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7801872. Authority coordinates are 14.623, -90.554. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 1997 and 1500.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tikal Futura” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.