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Our organic salts come from the Biosphere Reserve Ria Celestun
located *0 kilometers from the city of Merida, in an area bordering
between the states of Yucatan and Campeche. It is a site of special
marine beauty expressed in its wide range of green colors. For its
toponymy, Celestun horror means stone in Maya.
In ***2 the farm was established Real de Salinas salt, which meant
that the place and its surrounding communities, will populate the
migration of fishermen who came from other places and took up
residence to exploit the salt and fishing. The villagers continued
their traditional commitment to the fishery, so much so, that
through scale fisheries, Celestun turned in the second largest port
in the state. A level artisanal salt production has continued since
then. It is a region with a vast array of biodiversity, ecosystems
possessing as varied as: mangrove, coastal dune vegetation,
hillocks, savannah, Tulare, reedbeds, flooded lowland forest and
tropical deciduous forest with cacti. The Biosphere Reserve Ria
Celestun protecting the natural habitat for feeding and
reproduction of pink flamingo, which prefers the most protected
areas of rivers or lagoons with shallow water, high salinity and
soil slurries.
This is where playing the Artemia salina, a crustacean that is
their main food and gives the pink color to their feathers. The
conservation objective is a hypersaline estuary of very little
depth, which facilitates water evaporation, and promotes the
existence of Artemia and flamingos that eat. These marshes are
formed by the accumulation and deposition of sand, because ocean
currents and gives rise to the SAL of what we have achieved two
products:
1. Salt Flower: Collect this plant is complicated by the
crystallization process, and this occurs at the water surface at
dawn during spray. Collecting it is performed solely on the wind
that blows. In this way, we prevent the salt grain goes to the
bottom surface and the extraction process is performed manually
using the blade.
2. Rock salt: This is located at the bottom of ponds and collected
manually. Due to the presence of the Artemia Salina, have also only
a pink salt in the country. This salt has a natural color so that
it is proper and appetizing brilliant sight. A big advantage we
have over the rest of the salt, is our differentiation through the
combination of salt and fresh water. This mix of our salt water
gives a light flavor allowing better accompany food, as it is not
**0% sea salt, but not a mineral salt.
