The Banderas Bay area cemetery crisis leaves Cabo Corrientes, Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas scrambling for burial spaces as overcrowding and legal hurdles stall new cemetery projects.
The three municipalities that form the Bay Area Metropolitan Zone—Cabo Corrientes and Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco, and Bahía de Banderas in Nayarit—are scrambling to find room for their deceased. Existing cemeteries are full or lack clear legal status, and new burial grounds remain on hold.
In Cabo Corrientes, six small cemeteries serve each of the region’s towns. But . . .