Discover this beautiful national park located in the municipalities of Trinitaria and La Independencia, in the southeast of the state of Chiapas. You will love them!
This national park is located in the municipalities of Trinitaria and La Independencia in the southeast of the state of Chiapas, near Guatemala. It consists of 6,022 hectares of mesophilic mountain, pine and oak forests.
It was named a national park on December 16, 1959. In this area 256 plant species and more than 100 types of vertebrates have been registered, the vast majority, unique to the neotropical biotic region of the Chiapas and El Petén highlands.
18% of this area is occupied by lakes and lagoons -52 in total- ranging from turquoise to black, surrounded by pine and oak forests among other species of the mid-edge forest such as liquidambar.
Because of the rains, the dissolution of limestone has allowed these lagoons to have special characteristics such as their shape, size and depth, such as: La Laguna Encantada, Esmeralda, Tinta, Ensueño, Perol, La Cañada, San Lorenzo, Bosque Azul, Montebello, Pojol, Tzizcao among others.
In this place you can visit the caverns of the Bridge of God With a 40-meter-high arch, the Mayan archaeological site of Chinkultic is located within its limits. Its climate is temperate, so you can camp and swim excluding the months of rain that are between May and October. It is inhabited by quetzals, old men of the forest, tigrillos, temazates and migratory birds.
How to get
By road, taking Federal Panoramic No. 190, on the San Cristóbal de las Casas-Comitán route, buses leave for the park; 15 kilometers from this place you will find the path that takes you to the Blue Forest lagoon, at the height of La Trinidad. At kilometer 36.6 you can turn off to Tzizcao this place connects to other lagoons.
How to enjoy them
It has great tourist, scientific, cultural and educational potential, due to the richness of its lagoon and forest ecosystems, where farmers offer ecotourism tours along trails and in rustic rafts. It is ideal for bird watching.
