Benemérito de las Américas to Lagos de Montebello Travel Information and Travel Guide - Mexico

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Introducing Benemérito de las Américas to Lagos de Montebello

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Below Benemérito, the Carretera Fronteriza heads 60km south before turning west. Deforestation gradually gives way to more intact forest, with the road crossing several rivers, but you still pass numerous villages founded in recent decades, some of them settled by Guatemalan refugees. West of Ixcán you climb more than 1000m up to the cooler, pine-forested highlands around the Lagos de Montebello.