Sumidero Canyon and Chiapa de Corzo in Spanish

Cañón Del Sumidero:

A geologic training ocurred 12 million years ago, with an outcrop of rocks that reaches an altitude of 1550 meters above sea level. This place was sailed in 1980, after to the building Hydropower Plant “Manuel Moreno Torres”, better known than “Presa Chicoasén”. Is crossed by the Grijalva river, that rises in the mountains in Guatemala. Then in the city of Chiapa de Corzo you can see a colonial structure that is a fountain that used to give water to the whole town.

Chiapa de corzo:

It is one of the most important colonial city of XVI century, where we can admire the Pila or the fountain that has an Arabic architectural style (1562). The Santo Domingo de Guzman temple (1554), an Dominica Exconvent and the bell bigger with 5 tons, one of the first smelted of gold, silver and bronze in America Latina.

Start/opening time

At 7am in Tuxtla Gutierrez hotel and at 8:15am in San Cristobal hotel.

End/closing time

At 1pm to Tuxtla and 2:15pm to San Cristobal.