Chiapas’ Lacandon Rainforest: See this Eden-like paradise before it’s gone

This home to 24% of Mexico’s mammals and an important greenhouse gas warrior has already lost two-thirds of its territory

Published November 19, 2022

By Omar Vidal

Arriving in Chiapas’ Selva Lacandona (Lacandon Rainforest) is like arriving at the Garden of Eden, like penetrating a portal that connects the earthly to the divine.

Arriving here is to enter an extravagant, secretive green world where the “cats-and-dogs” rain never stops, to enter a habitat that every year is drenched with 2,000 to 5,000 millimeters of rain that blesses, heals and nourishes the life of the jungle.

Coming here means immersing yourself in an oceanic, infinite jungle rooted in Mexico’s deepest southwest.

In the Lacandon Rainforest, one can fall asleep in the tropics and dream of moist evergreen and montane forests,  then awake under a temperate conifer canopy, only to again fall asleep again and awake in a cold montane cloud forest.  It all overflows with abundance.

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San Miguel de Allende’s only weekly bilingual newspaper Atención San Miguel was founded in in 1976, as a social enterprise of La Biblioteca de San Miguel de Allende. Atencion San Miguel and the what-to-do guide, Que Pasa give the widest coverage of news, cultural events and community activities in the vibrant World Heritage listed city of San Miguel de Allende. Published by volunteers of La Biblioteca over the years it has become the largest enterprise of the non-profit organization La Biblioteca de San Miguel de Allende. The newspaper contributes funds for La Biblioteca programs in education and cultural development for the children of San Miguel de Allende. Its mission is to educate, entertain, inform and influence.