Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Cancún beach overwhelmed by over 50 tons of sargassum in 24 hours

Over 50 tons of sargassum were removed from Cancún’s Chac Mool Beach in just 24 hours, as authorities ramp up cleaning efforts across three key public beaches.

Cancún’s white-sand beaches are under pressure once again as an unusually large volume of sargassum has washed ashore in the last 24 hours, disrupting tourism and triggering a full-scale cleanup response from municipal authorities.

The most severely impacted location is Chac Mool Beach, where cleaning brigades removed more than 50 tons of the foul-smelling macroalgae in a . . .

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