The writer, Aldous Huxley, famously wrote wrote of Lake Atitlán,"Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. 
Mwandishi, Aldous Huxley, aliandika kwa umaarufu juu ya Ziwa Atitlán, ”ziwa Como, kwangu mimi naliona kama, linagusa upeo unaoruhusiwa katika uzuri wa mandhari, lakini Atitlán ni Como (eneo zuri la milima na maziwa asili yaliyotokana na volkeno) yenye vikorombwezo kadhaa vya volkeno.