Ciudad del Carmen Attractions

Beyond Champotón on MEX 180, continue for another 105km/65mi to the little Isla Aguada where a 3400 m (3700 yd)-long road bridge called the "Puente de Unidad" crosses to the Isla del Carmen. This latter, once called Isla de Tris and resembling an enormous sandbank, is lapped on its northern side by the waters of the Bahía de Campeche and to the south by the Laguna de Términos, a large freshwater lake fed by several rivers. Between 1558 and 1717 Isla del Carmen was a pirate's lair from which buccaneers set out to raid the Spanish ports along the Gulf of Mexico.