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This 15km-long beach, beginning about 30km east of Puerto Escondido, is one of the world's major nesting grounds for the olive ridley turtle (tortuga golfina to Mexicans). Up to a million female olive ridleys a year arrive at Escobilla to lay their eggs, with numbers peaking at night for a period of about a week around the full moons from May to February – a spectacular phenomenon known as an arribada or arribazón.
The Laguna de Manialtepec is a coastal lagoon about 18 km west of Puerto Escondido in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico(about 2 hours 30 from Huatulco). The name comes from Náhuatl "manial" (spring) and "tepec" (Hill), meaning (Hill where water is born). About four times a year, more or less, the lagoon becomes phosphorescent due to a type an alga that lives in the lagoon.
Up to a million female olive ridleys a year arrive at Escobilla to lay their eggs, with numbers peaking at night for a period of about a week around the full moons from May to February, release the baby turtles and then, you will head to the exceptional beauty of the Manialtepec lagoon, surrounded by lush mangrove vegetation and filled with tiny organisms that glow!
This 15km-long beach, beginning about 30km east of Puerto Escondido, is one of the world's major nesting grounds for the olive ridley turtle (tortuga golfina to Mexicans). Up to a million female olive ridleys a year arrive at Escobilla to lay their eggs, with numbers peaking at night for a period of about a week around the full moons from May to February – a spectacular phenomenon known as an arribada or arribazón.
The Laguna de Manialtepec is a coastal lagoon about 18 km west of Puerto Escondido in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico(about 2 hours 30 from Huatulco). The name comes from Náhuatl "manial" (spring) and "tepec" (Hill), meaning (Hill where water is born). About four times a year, more or less, the lagoon becomes phosphorescent due to a type an alga that lives in the lagoon.
