Museo del Coco

The Museo del Coco in Zihuatanejo offers insights into coconut cultivation, its various uses, and its cultural importance in the region. Visitors can tour a coconut plantation, view local art, and purchase coconut-based products.

Planning your visit

The Costa Grande of Guerrero is coconut country, and the Museo del Coco near Zihuatanejo explains an economy most visitors experience only as a drink on a beach.

The museum covers cultivation, harvesting and the full range of products — copra, oil, fibre, charcoal, timber, thatch and food — showing how completely the palm was used in the regional economy. Local crafts made from coconut are displayed and sold.

The plantation tour is the substance: walking among the palms with an explanation of how they are grown, harvested by climbers, and processed.

Guerrero's coconut industry has been hit by lethal yellowing disease and by hurricanes, so the museum documents a sector under pressure.

Zihuatanejo is a fishing town beside the planned resort of Ixtapa, and the contrast between the two is instructive. Bookable options combine the museum with Petatlán. Allow ninety minutes. Current availability is shown below.