Located in Palabor, municipality of San Juan Comalapa, department of Chimaltenango, this memory place recovers a part of the lands that, between 1980 and 1996, were occupied by the Guatemalan Army, installing a Military Detachment. There, serious human rights violations were committed against people who were kidnapped, illegally detained, tortured and later executed and buried in mass graves within the area occupied by the military force and in the surrounding area.

The Memorial Landscapes of Memory was promoted by women and families of victims of forced disappearance, organized in the National Coordinator of Widows of Guatemala -CONAVIGUA-. Their tireless fight to investigate the whereabouts of his loved ones allowed, in 2003, the Public Ministry to request the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala -FAFG- to carry out exhumations and prepare an expert report on the case.

More than 1,500 exploratory trenches were excavated by forensic archaeologists from the FAFG, finding 220 skeletons that had been buried, with signs of violence, in 53 individual and collective graves.

The exhumations were accompanied at all times by the families who provided information with their testimonies, asked permission from Mother Earth, performed ceremonies and invocations, cooked and provided food for the teams of researchers. Boys, girls, young people, women, men, old men and women know today that the truth appeared in each exhumation. Mother Earth had saved the bodies of her loved ones, preserving evidence of the conditions of their death and demonstrating the veracity of their complaints.