Frontera Corozal Getting there & around

Getting there & away

If you can’t get a bus or combi direct to Frontera Corozal, get one to Crucero Corozal, 16km southeast of San Javier on the Carretera Fronteriza, where taxis (M$20 per person colectivo, M$70 otherwise) and occasional vans (M$20) run to Frontera Corozal. If you’re driving, the ejido hits up cars entering town for a M$15 toll.

Autotransporte Chamoán vans run from Frontera Corozal embarcadero to Palenque (M$60, 2½ to three hours) around 13 times daily, with the last departure at 6pm.

Lanchas leave for Bethel (40 minutes upstream) on the Guatemalan bank of the Usumacinta, and for La Técnica, directly opposite Frontera Corozal. Lancha organizations (boat to Bethel for 3/4/7/10 people M$400/500/600/750) have desks in a thatched building near the embarcadero, and all charge the same prices. Information in Frontera Corozal is unreliable on onward buses within Guatemala from Bethel to Flores (Q$60, four hours), but there are normally departures around 11am, 1:30pm, 3pm and 5pm. Lanchas to La Técnica go on a colectivo basis for M$15 per person. A bus from La Técnica to Flores (US$6, five to six hours) leaves around 8am, stopping for immigration in Bethel.