Parque Nacional Cañón del Sumidero, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Facts and practical information
The Sumidero Canyon National Park, is one of the main tourist attractions in Chiapas, of great ecological wealth and one of the most impressive canyons in the world. It was declared a national park on December 8, 1980.
It began to form 70 million years ago thanks to the action of tectonic movements called Horts-Graben; which, due to their characteristics of land mass movement, are called tectonic pillar and tectonic trench respectively.
The rocks that we currently see on the walls of the Sumidero Canyon, began to form about 136 million years ago based on sediments and calcium minerals, which is formed by the action of some marine animals such as corals, this means that in ancient times, this region of Chiapas was submerged by a shallow sea. It has an extension of 21,789 hectares. Its main attraction is the canyon walls that reach 1000 meters high. It was created as such to protect this part of the Grijalva river basin. On February 2, 2004, the park was also declared a Ramsar site in Mexico.
Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Chiapas