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Nature Attractions In Southern Mexico

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Nature Attractions In Southern Mexico

  • 1. Agua Azul Waterfalls Palenque
    The Cascadas de Agua Azul are a series of waterfalls found on the Xanil River in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. They are located in the Municipality of Tumbalá, 69 kilometres from Palenque, near Mexican Federal Highway 199. These waterfalls consists of many cataracts following one after another, taken from near the top of the sequence of cascades. The larger cataracts may be as high as 6 meters or so. During much of the distance the water descends in two streams, with small islands in the middle. The water has a high content of calcium carbonate and other minerals, and where it falls on rocks or fallen trees, it encases them in a thick shell-like coating of limestone.Local residents reportedly restored the waterfalls after the 2017 Chiapas earthquake has created a crack and led to...
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  • 5. Laguna de Manialtepec Puerto Escondido
    The Laguna de Manialtepec is a coastal lagoon about 18 km west of Puerto Escondido in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. The name comes from Náhuatl “manial” and “tepec” , meaning . Access to the lagoon by car is via Federal Highway 200 or by boat from Puerto Escondido. The lagoon is 15 km long with patches of leafy jungle and mangroves that reach 15 meters of height in some places . The lagoon opens to the sea during the rainy season at a place known as Puerto Suelo or El Carnero.While much of the foliage and wildlife is visible from the docks in San José Manialtepec and the restaurants on them, most people explore the lagoon by boat or kayak to get up close to the wildlife on the banks. Multiple species of birds nest here, including wild ducks, storks and “tijerillas”. Fish speci...
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  • 6. Lagunas de Montebello National Park Comitan
    Lagunas de Montebello, or Montebello Lakes, is a national park in the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, comprising 59 multi-colored lakes in a pine forest and two Maya ruins. It was the first national park in Chiapas when created in 1959, and in 2009 the park was designated a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.
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  • 11. Miguel Alvarez del Toro Zoo (ZOOMAT) Tuxtla Gutierrez
    The Zoológico Miguél Álvarez del Toro is a Mexican zoo located in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. It was founded in 1942 as Zoológico de Tuxtla Gutiérrez. It was renamed after its director Miguel Alvarez del Toro and relocated in 1981. Currently, it is located in a nature reserve known as El Zapotal. The altitude is 630 metres and the annual mean temperature is 24.7Cº. The main characteristic of the zoo is that it only exhibits endemic fauna.
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  • 14. Playa Mazunte Mazunte
    Playa Zipolite is a beach community located in San Pedro Pochutla municipality on the southern coast of Oaxaca state in Mexico between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido. Zipolite is best known as being Mexico’s first and only legal public nude beach and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1970s. The origin of the name Zipolite has been lost over time. Translated from Zapotec, Zipolite means beach of the dead. Some versions has that referring to dangerous underwater currents just offshore and locals say the Zapotecs offered the bodies of their dead to this sea and the consequence for why the beach was unoccupied until alternative foreigners started arriving here in 1969. Other versions has it coming from the Nahuatl word sipolitlan or zipotli, meaning bumpy pl...
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