| Rio
Antigua |
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A
four-day rafting adventure on the Rio Antigua in Veracruz state
opens a historic corridor through lands steeped in pre-Columbian and
Spanish colonial past.
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| Rio
Jatate |
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In
southern Mexico’s Chiapas Mountains, Jatate flows over travertine
formations providing exciting multiday whitewaters in remote jungle
terrain.
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| Rio
Usumacinta |
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Usumacinta,
which creates the border between Guatemala and Mexico, offers a
classic journey past the ancient Mayan Indian ruins of Yaxchilan El
Cayo and Piedras Negras.
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In the past decade, the
whitewater enthusiasm of the United States and Canada has spilled
over into Mexico. Currently, at least three rivers in Mexico over
multiday rafting adventure. Flowing eastward below Pico de Orizaba—at
18,700 feet, Mexico’s highest peak—a four-day commercial rafting
adventure on the Rio Antigua in Veracruz state opens a historic
corridor through lands steeped in pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial
past.
Southern
Mexico’s two rafting adventures in the Chiapas state offer
virtually the only avenues of early continental civilization that
have only recently been discovered. In the Chiapas Mountains, the
pristine whitewaters of the Rio Jatate, flowing over travertine
formations, provide a challenging Class III-IV whitewater adventure
through rain-forest jungle terrain. Finally, for more than one
hundred miles, the mighty Usumacinta River, which creates the border
between Mexico and Guatemala, offers a classic journey past the
ancient Mayan Indian ruins of Yaxchilan El Cayo and Piedras Negras.
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