Tren Maya

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Environmental Impact

Intensive land development in the "Riviera Maya" region of the Yucatan Peninsula has led to increased contamination of groundwater systems that eventually discharge into Caribbean coastal ecosystems. The increased land development is largely attributed to the tourist industry.[1] The train project will increase the chances of water contamination adding to already increased levels of pollutants.


Tram Five

The construction of the train threatens one of the longest underground rivers in the world, the Sac Aktun cave system, by potentially causing cave collapses and contamination from steel piles and diesel.[2]

Beyond the environmental impacts the construction of the train system in this area will likely cause destruction to ancient Mayan archeological sites.

Tram Six

Maya Forests

Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System

Resistance to Construction

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Sources

  1. Chris D. Metcalfe, Patricia A. Beddows, Gerardo Gold Bouchot, Tracy L. Metcalfe, Hongxia Li, Hanneke Van Lavieren, Contaminants in the coastal karst aquifer system along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Environmental Pollution, Volume 159, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 991-997, ISSN 0269-7491, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.11.031.
  2. https://www.uw360.asia/the-destruction-of-sac-aktun-underwater-cave-by-the-tren-maya-project/