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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 15:49 |
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 Beginning on May, the dunes of Chihuahua's Samalayuca Desert will become a new ecotourism complex where visitors will be able to enjoy sandboarding, family gatherings and motorcycle and buggie races.
The complex will have a restaurant and a concert site, together with camping areas and a movile home parking where families can get together and stay overnight.
The local ejidos --Mexican communal property units-- and the Chihuahua State Government have been working together in the new project after commercial sand extraction was halted two years ago to protect the natural scenery.
Last year the Samalayuca Dunes desert, 50 kilometers south of Ciudad Juarez, was declared a federaly protected natural zone covering 63,182 hectares.
Already the desert is a popular recreation destinaton for Juarenses, and each year a sports event, Aventura en Dunas, is held here.
The huge tract of fine silicon dioxide sand off Federal Highway 45 is unique in Mexico and a south-of-the-border sister of New Mexico's White Sands.
The Samalayuca Desert, part of the Chihuahuan Desert, is home to 248 vegetal and 154 animal species, most of them endemic, harboring precious relics of a long-gone era when the area laid under the Thetys Sea.
The desert was a movie setting for Dune.
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Get over stereotypes! There is a couple of things you'd want know about the largest state of Mexico
Chihuahua is developing an aerospace cluster. Our universities are training aerospace engineers and technicians right now.
We are developing micro-electromechanical systems at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez. Many national and international companies with operations in the State are potential beneficiaries of our projects. 
The most important archaeological site of Northern Mexico is located in the State of Chihuahua, at Paquimé
In Juarez, just across from El Paso, Texas, there is a museum with original parts of the great supersonic passenger jet