Macario Gómez

About this audio guide

This guide to Macario Gómez, a village on the Tulum-Cobá highway near Tulum, follows the ejidatarios, the farmers who have worked milpa plots and kept stingless bees here for generations. It traces what changed after word of a new international airport began circulating in the area in the early two-thousands. You will hear about one ejidatario who chose to rent his land rather than farm it, and about a village where honey stalls and real estate signs now share the same stretch of highway.