Community participation in the design of the Bahía de Loreto National Park Management Program.

To talk about the use of its natural resources is to talk about the pre-Hispanic cultures, who managed to harmonize the use of marine and terrestrial resources with their needs. Today, directly or indirectly, the Loreto community lives from the National Park. The users, aware of this, promoted its creation in 1996. The modification of the second Management Program in 2019, was through a broad process of active participation of different sectors: fishermen, tourism service providers, government institutions, academics, civil society organizations and the general public. The opinions and suggestions obtained in working groups were incorporated into the Program. This document was designed in collaboration with the different sectors involved and with the population, establishing the activities allowed and not allowed, through zoning. The users are the ones who proposed new rules of use to the government.