Are you heading to Tulum soon and wondering what the situation with the sargassum is? Well, it’s good news — Tulum has announced plans to install brand new barriers and a disposal site to combat the influx of the brown seaweed washing up on the shores, which seems to be quite stubborn of late; these …
Sargassum barriers
Batches of sargassum on a number of beaches along the Mexican Caribbean coastline have already been reported this year, and the municipality of Playa del Carmen is doing its best to remove much of it as soon as it appears in the coming months. If you’ve traveled to Cancun or elsewhere in the region over …
This week, a new sargassum barrier was completed in Tulum’s National Park. In total, the barrier reaches 2.4km across the beaches of the park at the request of the Secretary of the Navy. The barriers have taken over a month to complete in total, as initial construction occurred in August. Sargassum is the name given …