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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Monday, April 6, 2020

No visitors: many communities restrict access to combat coronavirus Two Chihuahua municipalities have been warned that their actions are illegal



Communities restrict access to combat coronavirus

Residents of indigenous communities across the country are starting to say no to visitors, closing off access to their towns in order to avoid Covid-19 outbreaks. FULL STORY
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San Javier residents block the road into their community in light of the coronavirus emergency. San Javier residents block the road into their community in light of the coronavirus emergency.

No visitors: many communities restrict access to combat coronavirus

Two Chihuahua municipalities have been warned that their actions are illegal

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Residents of indigenous communities across the country are starting to say no to visitors, closing off access to their towns in order to avoid Covid-19 outbreaks in areas with high concentrations of vulnerable people and few medical resources.
Residents of San Javier in the Baja California Sur municipality of Loreto came to a consensus to close off the town on Thursday, citing the high percentage of elderly people and a lack of medical supplies.
Local authorities said there were currently no confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Loreto, and the citizens of San Javier are hoping their isolationist tactics will keep it that way.
In the south of the country, residents of San Juan Bautista Valle Nacional in northern Oaxaca voted by 80% to close the municipality off to outsiders to avoid contagion.
Mayor Rey Magaña García said that the vast majority of the municipality’s 53 communities voted to block access roads to all who are not residents, including relatives from other areas.
He also cited the risk to the municipality’s vulnerable population as a reason for taking the action, noting that Valle Nacional receives a lot of traffic moving between the state’s Cuenca del Papaloapan and Valles Centrales regions.
Restaurants in the municipality remain open, but only for take-out orders, tourist centers like the Monte Flor and El Zuzul swimming holes are closed and police are patrolling the river to ensure people aren’t gathering to swim.
Several communities in the Chiapas municipality of Ocozocuautla took similar measures to avoid Covid-19, blocking highways, closing tourist services and publicly requesting that people not visit.
In the north, authorities in two Chihuahua municipalities have been told by the state government that their decisions to close their towns were illegal.
Residents of Samalayuca formed brigades that began to stop and try to “persuade” visitors not to enter the municipality on March 26. Four days later, Mayor Javier Meléndez Cardona announced the all-out closure of access to anyone not from the 1,500-population town.
“Please don’t come,” he said on social media, adding that parks, tourism and other attractions were all shut down anyway. Samalayuca is known for its white sand dunes, waterparks, cave paintings and agricultural festivals.
A vehicle is checked on a highway in Samalayuca, Chihuahua.
A vehicle is checked on a highway in Samalayuca, Chihuahua.
The restriction applies only on weekends and will remain for the duration of the month-long emergency period.
Over 600 kilometers away, the municipal government of Urique, located in the famous Copper Canyon region, has prohibited outsiders from both entering and leaving the town.
Municipal representative Angélica Torres said that the decision aims to protect the town’s indigenous residents, who make up around 70% of its population.
“[Indigenous residents] are a bit more rooted in their customs and they don’t pay attention to whatever normal preventative measure we might tell them, like washing their hands, keeping their distance, sneezing into the arm,” she said of the threat the virus poses to them.
“They definitely don’t comply with these types of measures and the truth was that this was one of the situations we thought about most … that if there is contagion in the municipality, they’ll be the main ones affected,” she said.
Speaking to both the local community and tourists from across the globe, Torres pleaded with people not to visit the popular tourist destination during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
“We’re issuing this request to the community and to tourists in general not to come to our municipality for the wellbeing of our Rarámuri people, who are our most vulnerable population … [and] for the wellbeing of everyone,” said the local government in a statement.
“Please pardon the inconvenience. We’ll get through this crisis together,” it said, adding that the closure will be lifted on April 20.
A spokesperson for the state Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Solís, said that both municipalities were alerted that their closures were illegal by state Interior Minister Luis Fernando Mesta Soulé on March 30.
“In the end it’s a crime to impede the transit of other people,” said Solís.
“We understand perfectly that the authorities are worried about their citizens, but … in this case they’re violating a [constitutional] right,” he said.
There is currently no effort at the state level to open up the communities, he said, as they are hoping the communication will be sufficient for the municipalities to make the decision to do so themselves.
Chihuahua had 11 confirmed cases of Covid-19 as of Friday, and the number of suspicious cases had dropped to 20. Oaxaca had 22 confirmed and 73 suspicious cases. Chiapas had 18 confirmed cases and Baja California Sur had 21.
Sources: El Sudcaliforniano (sp), NVI Noticias (sp), Cuarto Poder (sp), Pie de Página (sp)

Transmission of coronavirus accelerates; 2,143 cases as of Sunday The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Mexico had risen to 2,143 and deaths totaled 94, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell told a press conference on Sunday evening.


https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/transmission-of-coronavirus-accelerates/

Transmission of coronavirus accelerates; 2,143 cases as of Sunday

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Mexico had risen to 2,143 and deaths totaled 94, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell told a press conference on Sunday evening. FULL STORY

Friday, April 3, 2020

All beaches declared closed during emergency period The ruling comes just in time for Easter, when beaches are a popular destination

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mexican beach Beachtime has been deemed nonessential.

All beaches declared closed during emergency period

The ruling comes just in time for Easter, when beaches are a popular destination

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The federal government has officially deemed beach tourism a nonessential activity, ordering state and local governments to close beaches in an attempt to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell told a press conference on Thursday that the closure order applies to every beach in the country until the end of the national emergency on April 30.
“The order has been given. It obliges state and municipal authorities to take coherent measures and suspend tourist activity on beaches, be it international or local tourism,” he said.
Other states had already begun to close beaches earlier this week, including Baja California Sur, Baja California and Oaxaca, where local authorities closed down the country’s only nudist beach, Zipolite.
Like beaches throughout Mexico, Zipolite is a big draw during the Semana Santa (Easter Week) vacation in April.
Authorities in Tamaulipas and Sonora had also begun to close beaches before the order, and Guerrero announced Wednesday that its beaches would be closed beginning Thursday.
“The state government makes this delicate decision in an unsatisfactory setting: we have had to choose between protecting life and suspending economic activity,” the state government said in a press release.
It said that the economy will always be recoverable as long as the human factor still exists and urged citizens to stay at home and practice other methods of social distancing.
It remains to be seen if there will be enforcement.
Authorities in the state have also canceled flights and cruises and closed hotels and other gathering places to avoid people assembling in groups.
Sources: AS (sp), El Financiero (sp)

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Coronavirus closes beaches in at least 3 states Mexico News Daily Held in February, Zipolite's Nudist Festival brings around 8,000 visitors to the 1 1/2-kilometer-long stretch of beach and boosts hotel business in the ...


Coronavirus closes beaches in at least 3 states
Held in February, Zipolite's Nudist Festival brings around 8,000 visitors to the 1 1/2-kilometer-long stretch of beach and boosts hotel business in the ...
Officials advise beachgoers in Baja California Sur that beaches are off limits. Officials advise beachgoers in Baja California Sur that beaches are off limits.

Coronavirus closes beaches in at least 3 states

Mexico's only official nudist beach is among them

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Authorities in at least three states have announced beach closures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Baja California Sur closed every beach in the state, where municipal police will be responsible for ensuring that the closure is upheld. It could prove challenging during the normally busy Semana Santa (Holy Week) vacation in April.
In Baja California the municipal governments of Tijuana and Mexicali decided to close their beaches in order to avoid large gatherings of people.
Police patrolled the Playas de Tijuana beach area on Monday and urged citizens to leave at the order of Mayor Arturo González Cruz.
“I have decided to suspend all activities on the beaches of the region. … It’s important that citizens respect these measures for their protection,” said González.
The city of Mexicali is on the border with California, but the municipality extends far enough south to include the popular Gulf of California tourist destination San Felipe. It recently saw its number of cases rise from 14 to 20, leading Mayor Marina del Pilar to take the same action.
“We have seen how people have not been complying with isolation measures, and that’s why the contagion curve has been growing in our city,” said Del Pilar.
“It is therefore my obligation to introduce stricter measures. We’ve determined to close the tourist beaches of San Felipe, and install a patrol that will monitor [them],” she said.
In the south of Mexico, local authorities on the Oaxaca coast decided to close Zipolite, the country’s only nudist beach, due to the large number of tourists who usually visit during the Semana Santa holiday.
Many indigenous communities on the coast that offer tourist services like lagoon and mangrove tours and cabin stays have cancelled all tourist services completely.
Held in February, Zipolite’s Nudist Festival brings around 8,000 visitors to the 1 1/2-kilometer-long stretch of beach and boosts hotel business in the surrounding towns of Mazunte, Puerto Ángel, San Agustinillo and Pochutla.
Sources: Milenio (sp), El Universal (sp)

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Zipolite closes the doors to tourism

https://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/141365/zipolite-cierra-las-puertas-al-turismo

In an assembly held last Saturday in the center of the population, which was led by the municipal agent, Antonio García Martínez, inhabitants voted by majority for the option of maintaining a symbolic fence to the so-called Nudist Beach of Mexico to temporarily prevent the arrival tourists and thus avoid a possible spread of the disease, which in the case of Oaxaca accumulates 12 confirmed cases, while 14 suspected cases have been detected on the coast.
With a vote of 100 in favor, against 66 who disagreed, the assembly decided to close the doors to tourism, which will lead to serious damages to the local economy, based mainly on the provision of tourist services and that it had in the holiday season. of Easter a possibility of rebound.
In an interview, the municipal representative explained that this is a necessary and timely measure, which despite the consequences it will bring in terms of economic losses, is unavoidable to maintain a healthy community and requires a responsible attitude from hoteliers and other providers of services.
He explained that in order to control the entry of passers-by, a census is carried out in each of the hotels with the largest capacity - around 20 -, to know how many tourists are staying and, from this, keep the establishments under surveillance to respect the stays of who are there, but avoid the entrance of more tourists.
The agent stated that the members of the tourist police will collaborate with the surveillance of the beach, common spaces and commercial establishments to maintain order and confirm that the corresponding sanitary measures are applied, but denied that this implies that the entry or exit of people or to stop those who want to enter the area.
Antonio García explained that restaurants and grocery stores will remain open for the consumption of premises, but with the implementation of permanent hygiene measures and keeping the healthy distance proposed by health authorities.
After commenting that currently the occupation remains at an average of 10 percent, he instructed the entrepreneurs and business owners of this pole to act responsibly in the face of the pandemic and to follow the recommendations and preventive measures to contain the advance of the coronavirus.

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Monday, March 30, 2020

Stay at home, government says: now is the time to slow virus’s spread

Stay at home, government says: now is the time to slow virus’s spread

As cases of Covid-19 continue to rise, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell issued  blunt advice: stay at home for the next month. FULL STORY
RELATED: President López Obrador offered the same advice. FULL STORY