The Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, part of The Mayan jungle, is the most extensive continuous jungle in Latin America, after the Amazon. It is located in the south of the Yucatan Peninsula. It comprises 723,185 hectares of protected land with around 52 privately owned parcels. There are several remnants archeological sites of the Mayan civilization.
Its privileged natural environment offers a vast diversity of animal and plant life. It consists of Tropical humid forest ecosystem type covered with Evergreen tropical humid forest, semi-deciduous forest with low temporally flooded forest, thorn forest and tropical deciduous forest. There are more than 1,600 varieties of plants, 73 types of orchids and 94 species of mammals, making it one of the most important areas in Latin America for the conservation of nature.