RIO BARREL SALE Chiapas - THE BACKPACKING

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

RIO BARREL SALE Chiapas

Stunning canyon 80 km long with walls up to 400 meters high and sometimes narrows to 10 meters. The geological formation of the site is mainly limestone and its flora and fauna is composed of a medium forest with mosses and ferns , ocelot , puma and jaguar. Whose beauty is only accessible to explorers , from the waterfall " Cloudburst " to the reservoir dam Malpaso this geological fracture vertical walls , caves , rapids and waterfalls stretching .

 There is a part where walls meet becoming a cave in the rainy season becomes a terrible torrent of wide sections siphon the expedition can rest or camp on the banks , the ideal for travel months are from January to May . The
second on the Chiapas Bridge 40 minutes from the capital city, where the boat is covered by the reservoir of the hydroelectric Netzahualcóyotl with a distance of about 2 hours to reach the camp The Boxed , where it will go upstream to part of La Venta river Canyon .