Beaches in 2 of Mexico’s most popular coastal destinations deemed unsafe for swimming

National wellness regulator Cofepris recovered concentrations of bacteria higher than permitted successful respective coastal destinations successful Mexico, including 2 of the country’s astir fashionable beaches.

As portion of its yearly pre-summer abrogation formation monitoring, Cofepris (Federal Commission for the Protection Against Health Risks) reviewed beaches successful each 17 coastal states and examined thousands of samples taken astatine 289 beaches betwixt mid-June and aboriginal July. 

La #Cofepris alertó que Playa del Cuale, en #PuertoVallarta, rebasó los límites permitidos de bacterias, por lo que fue clasificada como nary apta para uso recreativo en este periodo vacacional.

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— Imagen TV Guadalajara (@ImagenTVGDL) July 13, 2026

Most destinations met national wellness standards (98.3% to beryllium exact), but 5 sites exceeded the established microbiological bounds for recreational activities.

Among the 5 deemed not suitable for swimming were Cuale Beach successful Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and Main Beach successful Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.

Playa del Cuale is located successful 1 of the main tourer areas of Puerto Vallarta. The wellness alert refers to the circumstantial constituent analyzed connected that formation and not to each the beaches successful the municipality oregon the full Banderas Bay area, which extends northbound into the authorities of Nayarit.

Main Beach, oregon la Playa Principal, is 1 of the sites successful Puerto Escondido with the top economical enactment — tourism, commerce and sportfishing — successful the world-renowned destination.

The different 3 beaches recovered to airs wellness risks for bathers are Tijuana Beach successful Baja California and José Martí and Tumbao beaches, some successful Veracruz.

Cofepris is already moving with section authorities and their respective Clean Beaches Committees to instrumentality sanitation and surveillance actions that volition let the h2o prime to beryllium restored successful the shortest imaginable time.

The monitoring tests are conducted successful conjunction with authorities wellness authorities and the National Network of Public Health Laboratories instantly earlier vacation periods, arsenic h2o conditions tin alteration owed to rain, municipality discharges, water currents, tides, sewer failures and impermanent increases successful tourer influx.

The sanitary prime of seawater is determined by searching for enterococci (bacteria utilized arsenic indicators of fecal contamination) and the imaginable beingness of different microorganisms susceptible of causing disease.

Samples from the 5 beaches cited arsenic unsuitable were recovered to person much than 200 enterococci per 100 milliliters, the maximum allowed by the Health Ministry successful accordance with World Health Organization recommendations.

With reports from Informador and Proceso