This new adventure is expected to conclude on June 28, after completing the 400 kilometers that, crossing the Usumacinta, separate the Las Guacamayas Ecotourism Center, in Agrarian Reform, Chiapas, from the city and port of Campeche.
This June 18, the multidisciplinary team of unknown Mexico, embarked on a new adventure in which it will seek to conclude the journey begun last April aboard the Mayan cayuco, which on this occasion will have the support of the governments of Tabasco and Campeche to travel 240 kilometers through the waters of the Usumacinta River.
The expedition will cross the state of Tabasco until arriving at Jonuta, where the cayuco will be complemented with a sail made of mat and thus, with the help of the wind, it will arrive at Palizada, Campeche, where it will sail to Laguna de Terminos to go to Isla Aguada. There he will head towards the Gulf of Mexico, where he will face the waters of the sea for the first time to the city of Campeche, goal and end of the 2008 Usumacinta expedition.
This will conclude the expedition that the unknown Mexico magazine launched with the name Usumacinta 2008, whose first stage took place from April 19 to 27, in which he traveled 160 kilometers in a traditional Mayan cayuco, setting sail from the Las Guacamayas Ecotourism Center, in Agrarian Reform, Chiapas, on the banks of the Lacantún River, and later along the Usumacinta River until reaching Tenosique, Tabasco.
The crew, made up of Alfredo Martínez, head of the expedition, the archaeologist María Eugenia Romero, and an expert team in navigation through rivers and rapids sailed on a cayuco carved from a huanacaxtle tree (parota or pich, depending on the region) according to the codices and historical records, turning the expedition into an adventure that revives the ancient Mayan trade routes. During the tour, they visited natural reserves, the Lacandon Jungle, the archaeological sites of Yaxchilán and Piedras Negras (Guatemala) and crossed the imposing rapids in the middle of the San Pedro canyon without difficulty, a feat that no one had ever performed in a boat of such characteristics. .
An effort without limits that makes Mexico unknown again for what it is, a living magazine, with projects and adventures to tell, emanating from the history and culture of the people of this beautiful country.
