Landmark
Puerto Morelos
Laid-back fishing town and former chicle export port, with a leaning lighthouse and a protected reef.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Puerto Morelos, just north of Playa del Carmen, follows the chicleros, the forest workers who bled the sap of the chicozapote tree in the Yucatan jungle a century ago. It traces their harvest from inland camps and a hacienda at today's Leona Vicario toward a small port once called Punta Corcho. Best heard on the waterfront, looking along the shore toward the lighthouse.
This audio guide was created using AI.