HomeNews
NewsYucatan Peninsula

Government says construction on Jaguar Park in Tulum will be done in 2 months

MND Staff
By MND Staff
1
An overhead view of buildings in Jaguar Park in Tulum
Officials announced that if the project proceeds on schedule, construction will be completed within two months. (Román Meyer Falcón/Facebook)

Construction of the 2.5-billion-peso (US $140 million) Jaguar National Park in Tulum, Quintana Roo, should be complete within two months, government officials said, despite delayed environmental permits for a military-built luxury hotel in the park.

After a recent visit to the new park, Román Meyer Falcón, the head of the Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development Ministry (Sedatu), said the development of the site located in northeastern Tulum is 92% complete, the newspaper La Jornada Maya reported on Sunday.

On June 16, however, the tourism website Reportur revealed that the failure to carry out an environmental impact report for a US $38 million hotel project in the park was drawing criticism.

The Defense Ministry (Sedena) began building the luxury hotel last year on a site adjacent to an old Navy aerodrome. Critics immediately expressed concern that construction was moving ahead rapidly before an environmental impact review had been released. The review, known as an MIA, is a federally mandated procedure.

As a result of rising criticism, Sedena recently formally petitioned the Environment Ministry (Semarnat) to conduct an MIA.

Over the weekend, Meyer said the park project is presently focused on the museum, which is being built on the grounds of the old aerodrome that was incorporated into the park grounds after a lengthy process of reforestation. The reconstruction of the old aerodrome will also include the park’s administrative buildings.

An aerial view of Jaguar Park facilities in Tulum, Quintana Roo.
The majority of the park facilities have been built. (Sedatu)

The museum area will also feature six “windows to the sea,” access to footpaths and bicycle paths, and a nearby lighthouse will be restored.

Park infrastructure has largely been modernized to improve the experience for visitors to both the park and Maya archaeological sites in and around Tulum, as well as to facilitate connectivity to the Maya Train.

Jaguar Park comprises nearly 2,250 hectares encompassing numerous protected natural areas such as beaches, forests, the Tulum Archaeological Zone and the Tulum National Park. The area is home to at least 966 species of flora and fauna, including 60 endemic species that can’t be found elsewhere. Construction on the project began in 2022 and the park was originally scheduled to be operational by February.

With reports from La Jornada Maya and Reportur

1 COMMENT

Have something to say? Paid Subscribers get all access to make & read comments.
se turtles in Oaxaca

Mass nesting event brings more than 100,000 olive ridley sea turtles to Oaxaca’s Playa Escobilla

MND Staff - 0
As high as that figure sounds, only about 30%-40% of the eggs are likely to hatch, and then it's thought that perhaps one in a thousand of the resulting hatchlings reach adulthood.
Sheinbaum and Domínguez

Sheinbaum pledges continued military support as Sinaloa’s cartel turf war shifts to Mazatlán

MND Staff - 0
The president pointed out that the wave of violence in Sinaloa for the past two years was precipitated by the U.S. “extraction” of drug kingpin Ismael Zambada that led to an internecine war among Sinaloa Cartel factions.
Coastal pier with view of Puerto Peñasco/Rocky Point in Sonora

After a shootout, authorities rescue 3 kidnapping victims and arrest 7 suspects in Puerto Peñasco

MND Staff - 0
Popularly known as Rocky Point, the seaside resort was the scene of a firefight resulting in three wounded officers, but eventually the release of the victims, the arrest of the suspects and the confiscation of drugs and weapons.
BETA Version - Powered by Perplexity

VIDEO OF THE WEEK