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Chiapas, Mexico
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El Castaño is a small fishing village on the Southern Pacific Coast of Chiapas, Mexico, in the La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve. It is on the estuary of the Rio San Nicolas. This village is home to approximately 50 people and tourism is operated by a community-based cooperative Grupo Turistico Costa Verde.
A community group composed of men and women with a common vision. Noticing the high level of marginalization and lack of employment in the southern Pacific region of Chiapas they decided to form an ecotourism cooperative with the goal of self employment while protecting local natural resources. In the heart of the La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve on the Pacific coast of Chiapas. Surrounded by the tallest mangroves in North America, lakes and endless beaches.
El Castaño is 23 km from the city of Mapastepec, Chiapas, by a dirt road that passes through the small communities of Ibarra and Roberto Barrios.
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