Everyone head to Costa Lora

WWW.MEXICO-UPDATE.COM [1]. The Mexican Government, with the help of the private industry and the authorities of Tamaulipas, will construct a large beach and golf tourism complex that will require an initial investment of $4 billion dollars, informed Mexico’s Ministry of Tourism (SECTUR).

The development, called "Costa Lora," will be the first Integrally Planned Center (CIP) in the Gulf of Mexico, such as the tourist destinations of Cancun in the Caribbean and Huatulco in the Pacific, informed SECTUR in a press release.

The objective is for the new CIP to attract the tourism market of the southern states of the United States (New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana), and the Mexican states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and San Luis Potosi.

The project, an initiative of the federal Executive branch, through SECTUR, the National Trust Fund for Tourism, and the state of Tamaulipas, in northeast Mexico, will be located in the municipality of Soto la Marina in Tamaulipas.

The promoters of the initiative look to develop the new beach destination on a stretch of 14.29 miles in front of the Gulf of Mexico and the Laguna Madre, in a total surface area of around 13.18 acres. The area is easily accessible by land and air, and the national airport of Ciudad Victoria.

The "Costa Lora" development’s name is due to the Lora (Olive Ridley) turtle that nests in this region of Mexico. The Lora turtle is endemic and in danger of extinction; its mouth resembles the beak of parrots, which are called "loros" in Spanish.