Mazunte is a small beach town on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico (15°39′53″N96°33′14″W / 15.66485°N 96.55388°W / 15.66485; -96.55388). It is located 22 km southwest of San Pedro Pochutla on coastal Highway 200. Mazunte is located some 10 km to the west of Puerto Ángel and just about 1 km from San Agustinillo and 264 km south of the capital of Oaxaca.[1] There are two etymologies for the name. Some sources state that “Mazunte” is derived from a Nahuatl phrase, “maxotetia” which means “please deposit eggs here.”[1][2] However, older residents of the community state that it is from the word “mizontle,” used by locals to refer to a crab species that used to be very abundant in the area.[3][4][5]
Mazunte is famous for sea turtles. Before the mid 20th century, it had nearly no human population, but that changed when a market for sea turtle meat and eggs developed. Due to the many turtles that come to Mazunte to lay eggs, by the 1970s, Mazunte was the center of sea turtle hunting in Mexico, with its own slaughterhouse.[2][6] Concern over the declining number of sea turtles eventually led to an absolute ban on turtle meat and eggs in Mexico, and deprived most families in Mazunte of their main source of income. To replace it, ecotourism based on the conservation of turtles and natural cosmetics developed. The main attractions of Mazunte today are the Mexican National Turtle Center and the Cosméticos Naturales de Mazunte.[4][6]
In 2012, Mazunte was heavily damaged by Hurricane Carlotta.
^ ab"Destinos de Playa Mazunte" [Beach Destinations - Mazunte] (in Spanish). Oaxaca: Oaxaca Mio. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
^ abPeralta Silverio, Concepción (August 2000). "El Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga en Mazunte, Oaxaca" [Mexican National Turtle Center in Mazunte, Oaxaca] (in Spanish). Mexico City: Mexico Desconocido. Retrieved January 11, 2010.[permanent dead link]
^"Mexico Oaxaca costas de Mazunte. Ecoturismo. Entre en contacto con las tortugas en el Centro Mexicano de la tortuga" [Mexico Oaxaca Coasts of Mazunte. Ecotourism. Contact among the turtles of the Mexican Center of Turtles.] (in Spanish). Oaxaca: Blog of the State of Oaxaca. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
^ ab"Mazunte Un Paraiso en la Punta del Cometa" [Mazunte, a Paradise at Punta Cometa] (in Spanish). Mazunte, Oaxaca: Community of Mazunte, Oaxaca. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
^"Mazunte". Diario Rotativo Tribuna de Oaxaca (in Spanish). Oaxaca. 27 August 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
^ abTennesen, Michael (Nov–Dec 1999). "Mexico's Turtle Wars: How one country is battling poachers and saving sea Turtles". International Wildlife. 29 (6): 44–52. ISSN 0020-9112.
Mazunte is a small beach town on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico (15°39′53″N 96°33′14″W / 15.66485°N 96.55388°W / 15.66485; -96.55388). It is located...
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nearly everything in town with strong flooding, leaving it -along with Mazunte and Puerto Ángel- cut off from the mainland, but there were no deaths....
the Pacific Coast of Mexico. It extends into the Pacific Ocean within Mazunte municipality of Oaxaca state, in western Mexico. It is the southernmost...
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village in the central part of Oaxaca's coast, west of San Agustinillo and Mazunte and east of Chacahua. Until recently, the area was completely uninhabited...
Municipality, between the towns of Puerto Escondido and Huatulco near the town of Mazunte. In order to protect the turtles, the beach is guarded during nesting season...
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