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<\/figure>Casa<\/strong><\/mark> Corazon<\/strong><\/mark> Mazunte is a conservation, coexistence, research, and restoration project focused on the Mazunte Crab and its habitat: the intermittent coastal mangrove wetland ecosystem. This ecosystem serves as both a permanent and seasonal home for a large number of local species, which use this habitat as a vital ecological corridor for their survival throughout the different seasons of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mazunte<\/strong> lost its mangroove because of deforestation<\/strong> Due to deforestation and land-use change, the Mazunte Crab disappeared. Proyecto Coraz\u00f3n Mazunte took on the restoration of the mangrove wetland, and with it, the return of the Mazunte Crab. Today, we celebrate the presence of more than 15,000 crabs in this area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Importance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Heart Mangroove<\/strong>The Proyecto Coraz\u00f3n Mazunte and Casa Coraz\u00f3n Mazunte area is a restored ecosystem that had previously been transformed into a palm plantation, losing its mangrove wetland characteristics and the presence of the Mazunte Crab in order to be sold as lots.\n\nAfter an intense restoration effort over the last 15 years, the area has recovered and now supports an estimated population of nearly 20,000 Mazunte Crabs, along with an extensive network of underground burrows that receive fish<\/strong> During their larval and post-larval stages, ocean swells carry fish into the wetland, where the burrow system provides stable temperatures, shelter, and abundant food, significantly increasing their chances of survival in the ocean.\n\nIn this way, during the torrential rainy season, hundreds of thousands of juvenile fish are carried back to the coast of Mazunte, helping repopulate the reef and surrounding coastal waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A female Mazunte Crab can release between 150,000 and 700,000 eggs each year, representing the spawning of hundreds of millions of eggs from the Coraz\u00f3n mangrove wetland, providing food for the fish along the Mazunte coast and the open ocean, including migrating whales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n OUR WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n our homeEl Mazunte<\/strong>It is the name of a locality located in the municipality of Santa Mar\u00eda Tonameca, on the central coast of Oaxaca. It originated around the year 1600, and there is a theory that the name comes from the Nahuatl word:Mizontle<\/strong>\u201d, el cual se deriva del nombre de un cangrejo de gran tama\u00f1o y con gran presencia en ese entonces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/proyectocorazonmazunte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5-682x1024.png\")
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