High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The genus Cuniculus contains the two species of pacas. It is the only genus in the family Cuniculidae.Pacas are found from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Their range includes Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. It is now considered a luxury food-source of for the people of Guyana and Mexico. In Nicaragua is called Guardatinaja, and it is raised as the prime gourmet Nicaraguan Wild Meat. The legend goes in the Mayan Region of the Yucatan Peninsula that the kings and Caciques used to raise Pacas for their personal use, and if a servant ate one they would be punished harshly.