Mazunte Mexican Turtle Center, Turtle Museum, Mazunte Oaxaca
Mazunte's Mexican Turtle Center is known as the Turtle Museum in
Mazunte Oaxaca.  The center educates in a program to protect turtles.
Oaxaca's Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga offers a turtle aquarium and
live displays of endangered sea turtles.
Mazunte is a small beach community in Oaxaca State
forty miles south of  Puerto Escondido and four miles
northwest of Zipolite Beach.  The attraction for Mazunte is
the turtle museum and its mission to protect the sea turtles
that come ashore each year to lay eggs in nests that they
burrow into the beach sand.  
For centuries the local people harvested sea turtles and
the eggs for food and export.  In 1990 the Mexican
Government banned the harvesting of turtles and eggs and
in 1994 the turtle center opened to visitors.
Getting There
How to Reach Mazunte from Oaxaca City, San Cristobal de las Casas, and
Acapulco:
Three Different Bus Routes reach the area of Puerto Escondido, Mazunte, and
Huatulco on Oaxaca's Pacific Coast.

ADO, First Class service via OCC Buses reach Pochutla via Juchitan, Salina Cruz
and Huatulco.  The route then goes Northwest along the coast to Pochutla
(Mazunte/Zipolite stop) and then to Puerto Escondido
Second Class buses run over Route 175 and Route 135, making more direct runs over
the mountains to Pochutla and Puerto Escondido
Juchitan and Salina Cruz are also first class transportation hubs for trips to San
Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque (Chiapas State)
Estrella Blanca Buses run first Class service, 10 trips daily, from Puerto Escondido
to Acapulco along coastal Route 200.
Local buses run every hour along the coastal route 200 highway connecting
Huatulco, Pochutla and Puerto Escondido.
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Mazunte Mexican Turtle Center offers aquarium viewing of sea and land turtles in a
museum building and rehabilitation areas outside where injured turtles are cared
for.
Mazunte's Mexican Turtle Center offers aquarium
viewing of sea and land turtles in the Centro
Mexicano de la Tortuga or the Turtle Museum of  
Mazunte as many call it.  The center educates in
a program to protect endangered turtles both
fresh and salt water.
Oaxaca's Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga
displays endangered sea turtles and those that
have been injured and are being rehabilitated.
Mazunte's Mexican Turtle Center, with the help of volunteers, gathers eggs from this and other beaches
along Oaxaca's coast during the May egg laying.  The Turtle Center incubates the eggs to insure their
hatching.
The Mexican Turtle Center in Mazunte Oaxaca educates the public about the plight of the endangered sea
turtles in a program to protect the sea and land turtles of Mexico.
The Mexican Turtle Center in Mazunte
Oaxaca opens at 10 am and charges 25
pesos for entry and self guided tour
brochure in English or Spanish
Mazunte's Mexican Turtle Center aquarium building, right, displays land and sea turtles in the natural
settings.  The center educates in a program to protect turtles and offers the turtle aquarium and live
displays of endangered sea turtles for visitors.
Collective taxis on the coast are
called Camionetta,  Zipolite to
Mazunte 5 pesos.  Zipolite to the
crossroads at route 200 for Puerto
Escondido, 10 peso.