Xel-Ha Blog

The renowned Mexican magazine Poder y Negocios, with a biweekly 65000-copy circulation, dedicated its 21st edition to 15 Mexican companies with excelling ecological operation, including Xel-Ha Natural Park, in Quintana Roo.

The publication emphasised the labour carried out by Xel-Ha since 1994, operating on sustainability standars, while simultaneously representing an important attraction within the Cancun Riviera Maya destination, receiving an average 750 thousand visitors a year, providing employment for over 500 people, and actively participating in educational-ecological programs for tourists, professors, children, and several different groups of visitors.

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Fifteen children and youths affected by cancer from Guadalajara, Jalisco, with ages ranging between 8 and 17 years, had their dream of seeing the sea come true, at a unforgettable day at Xel-Ha Natural Park, during their stay in Quintana Roo.

At Xel-Ha, these special guests were taken on a guided tour on which they were presented to many aspects of the region’s wildlife, and got to know the impressive inlet that unites the world’s most important underground river system to the Caribbean sea. They took this opportunity to swim in the inlet and enjoy a delicious meal at Chula Vista Restaurant.

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Xel-Ha Park employees, along with their family and friends, helped close the sea turtle nesting period in a moving ceremony that freed 165 turtle young, which completed the extraordinary amount of 29,962 turtles that were helped towards the sea in their quest for survival.

This represented Xel-Ha’s 12th consecutive year of contribution to the care and preservation of sea turtles, in coordination with Flora, Fauna, and Culture of Mexico, protecting the specimens that arrive each season to nest, between the months of May and October. This year registered an census of 102 green turtle nests, from which 8,526 young hatched, as well as 425 loggerhead nests, which gave birth to 21,536 hatchlings.

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