蒂卡尔（Tikal）是玛雅文明中最大的遗弃都市之一。它坐落于危地马拉的佩腾省，北纬17°13′19″ 西经89°37′22″。

蒂卡尔是西班牙征服后，根据当地后来的马雅人所取名字，并非原名，Ti是马雅语的介系词，Kal是蓄水池的意思，为西班牙人沿用。

此地的原名，根据碑铭上的玛雅象形文本为穆塔（Mutal）或雅克斯穆塔（Yax Mutal），Mutul是绳结的意思，Yax此前缀词意思为伟大或是第一。

Tikal (/tiˈkäl/) (Tik’al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, reported the ruins to La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal. After the Berlin Academy of Sciences' magazine republished the report in 1853, archeologists and treasure hunters began visiting the forest. Today tourism to the site may help protect the rainforest. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Petén, the site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.