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Tla-co-TAL-pan
It's not a name that rolls easily off the tongue - unless your tongue happens to be Nahuatl, the pre-hispanic language of this area. It means “land between the waters”.

Tlacotalpan is in the wetlands. The town borders the wide and meandering Rio Papaloapan. In all directions there are networks of smaller rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, swamps and lagoons. If it’s wet, you’ll find it here.

In the East, all this water converges to form Laguna Alvarado and from there, through a small inlet, it enters the Gulf of Mexico. Tlacotalpan is where we chose to spend our year.