“Mexico City, in addition to being one of the largest cities in the world, is also a place full of beauty and natural resources”, with these words begins the new Nature Tourism Guide, which was presented this Thursday by the secretariats of the Environment and Tourism as one of the strategies aimed at the economic reactivation of the capital.
The adventure tourism offer that is promoted in the guide is made up of 25 places divided into five categories: Protected Natural Areas; Adventure; Agrotourism; Parks and Tourist Centers and Unmissable. The digital version of the guide (which you can find here) has a link to Google Maps to know the location of places of interest.
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The new Nature Tourism Guide also contains a section on sanitary measures that must be respected during visits to tourist areas, the location of the tourist information modules, general advice and information and maps of the Integrated Mobility network, in order to know the different ways to get to the places of interest.
These are the tourist spaces that are promoted in the Mexico City Nature Tourism Guide:
Protected natural areas
- Desert of the Lions National Park
- Cumbres del Ajusco National Park
- El Tepeyac National Park
- Tlalpan forest
Adventure
- The Dinamos
- Ciclovía Rural of Mexico City
- Teuhtli volcano
- Xitle volcano and caves
Agrotourism
- Mole and Nopal Route
- Chinampera swamp of San Pedro Tláhuac
- Ejido San Gregorio Atlapulco
- Route San Luis Tlaxialtemalco
Parks and Tourist Centers
- Ecological Park of Mexico City
- Cuitláhuac Park
- Bicentennial Park
- San Nicolás Totolapan Ejidal Park
- Tepenáhuac Environmental Education Center
- Stone Cross Cabins
Unmissable
- Cerro de la Estrella National Park
- Sierra de Santa Catarina / Yecahuitzotl Park
- Sierra de Guadalupe
- Forest of San Juan de Aragón
- Xochimilco Ecological Park
- Mexico City Ecological Park
- Chapultepec Forest
“59% of the city’s territory is considered as conservation land, which is equivalent to more than 88 thousand hectares, which is a reservoir of 12% of the national biodiversity and 2% of the world’s biodiversity. In addition, the city has 25 Protected Natural Areas and 7 Community Areas of Ecological Conservation ”, highlights the Guide.
For example, the mountainous area of Mexico City, in addition to offering panoramic views of the capital, “is also one of the most prominent territories for the development of nature tourism. The Cumbres del Ajusco National Park stands out, a protected natural area made up of 920 hectares of coniferous forest that at its highest point reaches a height of 3,970 meters above sea level ”.
This area, it is explained, “is ideal for practicing adventure tourism sports such as hiking, mid-mountain mountaineering (trekking) to reach the Cruz del Marqués, the highest point. You can also practice cycling and mountain descent (downhill) and camping on the slopes of the Park, or observation of flora and fauna, highlighting endemic species ”such as beryl hummingbird, coluda-tailed quail, mountain reptiles, rattlesnake, among others.
The Ciclovía Rural of Mexico City has 28.9 kilometers that extend through protected natural areas in the Tlalpan mayor’s office and through 8 towns south of the city: San Andrés Totoltepec, San Miguel Ajusco, San Miguel Xicalco, La Magdalena Petlacalco , Parres “El Guarda”, and San Miguel Topilejo.
“In the bike lane there are various rest areas where you can enjoy and recreate the majesty of the green areas that the forest offers us. On the route there is a great biodiversity of flora and fauna represented by the different species of trees, ocote, pine, strawberry tree, oyamel, tepozán, oak and others. Also, with endemic species such as teporingo, armadillo, badger, golden eagle, rattlesnake, cat, mountain, deer, mountain sparrow and coyote ”.
Here you can find the complete Nature Tourism Guide of Mexico City.
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