Mexico

Chiapas Highlands and Inner Yucatán Peninsula

Welcome to our micro-regions of Southern Mexico – Dynamic Indigenous communities from the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula to the misty highlands of Chiapas.

From tropical to cloud forests, cenotes to rivers, plains to mountains, diversified systems like milpa and backyard vegetable gardens to apiaries and coffee plantations, from Yucatec Maya to Tsotsil and Tseltal people, The Inner Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas Highlands represent great cultural and biological diversity but also share important traits.

Communities are reclaiming history long held by colonists, telling their own stories, and writing their own futures, planting the seeds of progress in their ancestors’ earth, growing strong organizations, leadership and partnerships and beginning to reap the rewards: thriving food systems, health systems, education models and income generation opportunities.

Nurtured more every day, the children are rising to lead and harvest a brighter future.