Progreso, Yucatán: 14 Places to Visit, Map & Guide

14 places with their own page in the municipality of Progreso, in the state of Yucatán.

Map of Progreso

Progreso · City
Mérida's seaside port, with a record-long pier, a pedestrian malecón, a 19th-century lighthouse and a wide Gulf beach 35 km from the capital.

Chelem · Village
A low-key fishing village just west of Progreso, with a free white-sand beach, seafood shacks and boat trips on the lagoon behind it.
Chicxulub Puerto · Village
A beach village just east of Progreso that sits near the centre of the crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Chuburná Puerto · Village
A small fishing and beach village west of Progreso, with shallow calm water, dunes and boat trips into the lagoon and mangroves to Isla Columpios.
San Ignacio · Village
A former henequen hacienda off the Mérida–Progreso highway, with a red neo-Gothic church, the old machine house and a main house used in the film Casta Divina.

Isla Columpios · Island
A sandbank in the lagoon behind Chuburná Puerto with swings and hammocks over knee-deep turquoise water, reached by cooperative boats.
Isla Pájaros · Island
A sandy seabird islet in the Arrecife Alacranes reef, far out in the Gulf; it is closed to tourists, who can only land on nearby Isla Pérez.

Arrecife Alacranes · Nature reserve
The biggest coral reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico, a national park far off Progreso with five sandy islets, a lighthouse and diving on a remote reef.
El Corchito · Nature reserve
A small mangrove reserve on the edge of Progreso, reached by a five-minute boat ride, with three clear freshwater pools to swim in and tame raccoons.

Parador Uaymitún · Viewpoint
A three-level wooden lookout on the coastal road where you can watch flamingos feeding in the lagoon, best early or late in the day.

Malecón de Progreso · Landmark
Progreso's car-free seafront on Calle 19: a kilometer of beach, seafood restaurants, the Meteorite Museum and evening music by the Gulf.
Muelle de Progreso · Landmark
Progreso's arched concrete pier runs about 8 km out into the shallow Gulf, certified by Guinness in 2023 as the longest pier in the world.
Museo del Meteorito · Landmark
A museum on Progreso's malecón about the Chicxulub asteroid impact and Earth's five mass extinctions, with fossils, projections and moving dinosaurs.
Yucalpetén · Landmark
Progreso's sheltered harbour, opened in 1968: fishing fleets, shipyards and some 36 marinas between the port and Chelem.