About Catemaco

At 105 mi from the city of Veracruz is located a mystic place surrounded of a non equal landscape. The Catemaco municipality is located at the seashore of a lagoon with small islands, in the region of the name Region de los Tuxtlas, in the denseness of the jungle where abound Macacos monkeys, where one of the main tourism attractive is located, a boat tour around the islands of Tanaxpillo and Isla de los Monos.

The municipality has a wonderful landscape which deserve to be visited, the biodiversity of the jungle talk by itself. The region of Los Tuxtlas has nearly 300 volcanic cones; the lagoon of Catemaco has an extension of over 7500 ha and a depth o 36 ft; the Isla de Pajaros (bird’s island) take its name of its fame,, a small portion of land strengthen by rocs and swamps, almost covered in full of cormorants and a wide number of white, dark gray and green herons, in the seashores of this waters there are also dark turtles.

The ecological reserve of Nanciyaga is another of the main attractive, located at 4. 5 mi from Catemaco, the visitor can do a lot of activities in its 40 ha of jungle and lake. It also can be practiced the ecotourism with a refreshing walk where you’ll find exotic vegetation and a crocodiles park. Among other activities, the tourist can take a steam bath; get a mud mask, a mineral water shower, kayaks and handcrafts shopping.

 

Films shot in Catemaco and Los Tuxtlas

Apocalypto

USA, Directed by Mel Gibson, 2006
The story of the journey of a man to a world governed by fear and oppression, where a disturbing ending awaits him. Thanks to a change of destiny and incited by the love of his family and wife, he will desperately attempt to go back home and save his way of life.

Arachnid

Philippines, Directed by Jack Sholder, 2001
In a South Pacific island, a light aircraft carrying a secret mission to investigate an unknown mortal virus, is compelled to emergency land.

Piedras Verdes

Mexico, Directed by Angel Flores Torres, 2001
The first eighteen years of the life of a mixed race woman are the path of a series of misfortunes and wrong decisions. Her route begins in the city and ends in the desert, linking to other also fallible characters as she goes along, characters that look for just to look for, without knowing what they want to find.

Hijos del Viento

Spain, Directed by Jose Miguel Juarez, 2000
A story about love and adventures during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (Aztec Empire).

Ámbar

Mexico, directed by Luis Estrada, 2006
In a fantasy country, old Max remembers his childhood adventures, when he was taken by hunters to a jungle where he met a lot of stranger characters looking for a marvelous stone, the Ambar, which, by chance, belongs to him.

Medicine Man

USA, Directed by John McTiernan, 1992
Deep down in the Amazon tropical jungle, researcher Robert Campbell lives and works trying to find a cure for cancer. Requesting help to the pharmaceutical enterprise he works for, researcher Rae Crane goes to Robert’s lab-house, where he lives with an indigenous tribe.

La Casa del Sur

Mexico, Directed by Sergio Olhovich, 1975
Allegory about the constant marginalization and submission of the Mexican indigenous, besieged by the drought and oppression, northern people going by train to the south to have a new life on the shores of Catemaco Lagoon.

Muerte en el Jardín

France/Mexico, Directed by Luis Buñuel, 1956
An adventurous European arrives to a town located next to a gold mining camp. He is arrested by the police, accused of robbing a bank. The police confiscate the gold mine from the state, as a response, the workers begin a revolution. Defeated, they run away to the jungle, where they will struggle to survive.

Sombra Verde

Mexico, Directed by Roberto Galvadon, 1954
Ricardo Montalban plays a young scientist looking for medicinal plants, in an adventure set on Veracruz jungle. He soon finds a man who has created his own world apart from the society, but problems come up when his daughter shows a tempting interest in Montalban.

 

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Hotel Los Arcos Francisco I. Madero No. 7, col.Centro c.p. 95870 Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico
Tels: +52 (294) 943 00 03 Y +52 (294) 943 07 73 Fax: +52 (294) 943 02 50