The Sumidero Canyon is a spectacular canyon in the Grijalva River and that a dozen kilometers from the capital of Chiapas, Txutla Gutiérrez.

Photography by eduardo.robles

Sumidero Canyon walls in Chiapas:

The geological history of the place tells us that the origin of these towering walls (in places, with a height of 900 meters) occurred in the Pleistocene due to a fault. Although we note that a few years ago, the Grijalva River (one of the largest in Mexico) for over a river in Chiapas was fast and furious, but the construction of a series of hydroelectric plants allowed the river could visit by boat (there is a depth of 400 meters walking distance from the central Manuel Moreno Torres, and so that the barrel would become a major tourist center of the state of Chiapas. (más…)