Trajineras in Xochimilco will go through a verification process to ensure visitor safety

Since March 1, the town hall Xochimilco reported on the application of certain operations to check the trajineras. This is to guarantee the security thousands of visitors who sail through the demarcation canals every weekend.

Likewise, the authorities assured that commercial transactions within the tourism sector would be reviewed and on the ground, like the horses, the northerners and the trios. Likewise, they will update and keep in shape the register of guides and drivers in charge of guiding foreigners and nationals to said tourist points.

Xochimilco plans to review more than a thousand boats which offer visits on the entire circuit of the canals.

In October 2022, the New tariff of the trajinera route from this month of October, which will have a cost of 600 pesos per hour per trajinerawhich has a quota of up to 18 people on a boat. Since then, supervisors have been placed to monitor compliance with the rate to prevent irregularities.

Therefore, they urged visitors to make the corresponding report in case of detect an anomaly in the tourist information modules located near the piers or directly at the tourist office located at Pino 36, San Juan district, historic center of Xochimilco.

The trajinera in Mexican culture

The authorities reiterated the importance of Xochimilco and its canals for Mexican culture, in addition to the fact that they are considered Patrimonium of mankind“Xochimilco is a place full of history and legends that are told in the 184 kilometers of navigable canals traveled by the more than a thousand boats that offer the trajinera ride.”

Popular boat trips are among the activities offered by the sites Sightseeing of CDMX. It is also one of the plans that Mexican families and groups of friends continue to maintain as a beautiful tradition.

The most frequent tour of the known nativitas pier Follow a direction to the Caltongo Pier, located in the San Cristóbal neighborhood, very close to the center of Xochimilco. Around 2 hours is the average journey time and the path that paddlers follow passes through a tourist channel.

It should be noted that piers such as Nativitas, Zacapa and Las Flores Nativitasare considered the most traditional.

Xochimilco is well known as one of the oldest sites in CDMX, in particular the trajinerasbecause they are the only ones prehispanic transport which is still valid. Well, back then they didn’t look like they do now, what happened is that they evolved based on the changes in Mexican culture.

One of the greatest that the trajineras have are the particular names of the women that they display in their ornate arches. The reason why they have female names goes back to the years of the porfiriatowhen canal rides in this town became common among the catrines, that is, men who dressed elegantly. They are precisely the ones who made the request to add boat names to celebrate people or also to woo the ladies.

They were adding roofs and it was during this time that the tourist use of the famous trajineras began to be exploited and with it came the construction of piers and the reforestation of the Nativas Forest.