Description
The features integrating one of the most impressing Mexican landscapes, el Cañón del Sumidero include calcareous walls of hundreds
of meters high, exuberant flora, abundant dripping decorating them that also feed the Grijalva, one of the most water volume rivers.
This landscape’s features have led to the development of an abundant flora and fauna in the middle of the jungle.
For this reason the
Federation named it National Park in 1980. Its surface is a little more than 20,000 hectares, the canyon walls reach almost a thousand
meters high; at the end of it, Central Hidroeléctrica Manuel Moreno Torres, known as Chicoasén, is located.
Weather
Hot, sub humid, with heavy rains during summer; average year temperature is 26°C. The canyon can be visited 365 days a year.
Location
It is located in the state’s center it comprises the Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapa de Corzo, San Fernando, Osumacinta, Soyalo municipalities.
How to get there?
12 Km from Tuxtla Gutiérrez take the 190 Panamericana Highway to Chiapa de Corzo boat board where you can board a boat to flow through the canyon. You can also travel to the Osumacinta boat board, 45 Km from Tuxtla using the state’s Highway to navigate through the Grijalva. By road, North to Tuxtla Gutiérrez you can visit the five observatories, La Coyota, La Ceiba, El Tepehuaje, El Roblar and Los Chiapas.
What to do?
Kayak riding, swimming, flora ands fauna observation, rappel, Tyrol, mountain cycling and jungle walking.
Services
The last observatory has a restaurant service.
Travel hints
Comfortable clothes for long distance boat navigation and sun screen.
Places nearby
Chiapa de Corzo and Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
Contact
Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas.
Lic. Edda Carolina González del Castillo
Directora de Parques Nacionales
2ª oriente norte No. 227
Palacio Federal, Tercer piso,
Tel. (01 961) 61 3 83 37
61 1 37 87/61 4 69 37
