How Chuburná's Las Dunas Got Approved, Then Shut Down
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Chuburná, Yuc., The Federal Office of Environmental Protection (Profepa) temporarily-totally closed down the Las Dunas tourist real estate development, located in Chuburná, a town in Puerto Progreso, where more than 90 thousand square meters of sand and coastal vegetation were dismantled.
The government of Joaquín Díaz Mena approved a construction in the dunes of Chuburná despite the environmental damage this would cause. Learn more.
How Chuburná's Las Dunas Got Approved, Then Shut Down
Before Las Dunas could be shut down, it first had to be approved — and that approval came only after Mexico’s environment ministry had already rejected it once. Semarnat, the federal environment secretariat, turned down the Las Dunas tourist complex in 2023, when Progreso’s urban development plan classified the Chuburná Puerto site as highly vulnerable....
MÉRIDA, Yucatán.- The Federal Office for the Protection of the Environment (Profepa) has announced the temporary closure of the works of the controversial project: “Construction and Operation of Las Dunas Tourist Complex”. The project is slowed down after the Profepa confirmed the damage that the development would mean to the flora and fauna of the ...
The project takes place in Chuburná Puerto, municipality of Progreso, Yucatán.
The current state administration did participate in the process that led to the authorization of the Las Dunas real estate project in Chuburná Puerto, according to official documents. The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) was responsible for the environmental authorization in April 2025, but two state government agencies were involved in the process starting in November 2024.
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