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Launch of New Route Touristique El Boqueron

The Ministry of Tourism and the Salvadoran Tourism Corporation (CORSATUR) carried out the launch of the New Route Touristique El Boquerón, whose investment amount exceeds $ 120,000; the road will benefit about 25 micro, small and medium businesses working in the area.

The new offering joins the Road Interpretive Center and five tours novel: Joy de Careen, El Matador Black Jewels, Walk the Chino, Heritage and Interpretive Center Trails with interpretive signage.

“With the launch of this new route, we benefit a group of 25 businessmen in the area, we are also increasing the supply of tourist destinations in the country, because we offer tourists an interpretive center that will have prior knowledge that the path will, knowledge of visual information and resources found in the park, “said Duarte.

For remodeling the National Park offered Boquerón 75 direct jobs and hired three domestic companies that did the work of construction of the Interpretive Center, hiking, decoration, signage and other details of the infrastructure.

He added that also have established five new routes and has built and implemented the Heritage Interpretive Centre with a more dynamic and interactive. Linking these efforts is aimed at strengthening the Adventure Tourism as a strategic commitment of the Ministry of Tourism.

Within this new proposal is: Joy de Careen was declared a World Heritage Site in 1993 and represents a major attraction, allowing impressive approach to the Maya culture.

Also, the walk to or boqueroncitos Chino represents an opportunity for adventure tourism, as it has a varied vegetation and becomes an important natural refuge in which are diversity of species such as foxes, coyotes, among others.

Add that, the Interpretive Center Park El Boquerón, has an innovative and interactive thematic approach presents a sequence of stages and the people who lived in the area, in the latest eruption of the volcano of San Salvador in 1917.

Therefore, the Interpretive Center becomes a pioneering product in the country, fulfilling two main functions: to recreate and tourist awareness on the issue of protection of natural areas in the country. For this project, invested $ 18,980.00 and was implemented in two months’