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Country
🇲🇽 Mazunte
Mexico
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Continent
🇲🇽 Mazunte
Americas
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
Americas
Best Season
🇲🇽 Mazunte
November to April (dry season); July to September for sea turtle nesting
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
May–September (dry season) or Feb for Carnival
Currency
🇲🇽 Mazunte
Mexican Peso (MX$) — cash only in most places
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
Brazilian Real (R$)
Greeting
🇲🇽 Mazunte
Hola / Buenas
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
Olá / Oi
Mazunte runs as a cooperative community. Buy cosmetics from the COSMETICOS NATURALES cooperative — the original source that inspired natural cosmetics movements globally.
Cariocas (Rio residents) are warm and physical — hugs and cheek-kisses are normal greetings.
🇲🇽 Mazunte Fun Fact
Until 1990, Mazunte was the centre of Mexico's sea turtle industry. After a government ban, the entire village reinvented itself as a model eco-tourism community — one of the most remarkable environmental turnarounds in Latin America.
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro Fun Fact
Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue is struck by lightning an average of 6 times per year.
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