In a community in San Miguel de Allende there is this tree that is more than 450 years old and 20 people can hug it by joining their outstretched hands; To see it, you must first go through a tunnel almost half a kilometer long
San Miguel de Allende.- Just 20 minutes from San Miguel de Alende is La Huerta, a hidden community that is reached through a 400-meter-long tunnel, where there is a sabino or ahuehuete of more than 450 years old and is considered the second thickest trunk in Mexico, only below the Tule Tree located in Santa María El Tule, Oaxaca.
This Sabino has grown to large dimensions because a spring runs beneath its roots that has nourished it and remains leafy, which is why it has reached a circumference of approximately 20 meters (10 meters in diameter), in such a way that to embrace it It takes around 18 to 20 people joining their extended arms.
It is frequently visited by tourists who come to admire this leafy, giant and long-lived tree, so, already knowing the way, there are those who already have the habit of visiting it regularly to admire the majesty of this ahuehuete and also have a pleasant time in contact with nature in its surroundings.
If you want to visit it, you will have to take the road that goes from San Miguel to Celaya, at the detour to Guanajuato you will have to detour in the direction of the Allende Dam and once at its curtain make a “U” turn to take the Old Railway path that passes through the La Huerta tunnel, which has a height of 7 meters, 5 meters wide and 400 meters long.
When leaving the tunnel you will have to take the path that passes next to the Laja River, until you reach the La Huerta community. Once there, you will have to walk about half a kilometer up a climb with a cobbled path, until you reach the area of the spring that gives life to the sabino.
To know
The ahuehuete is a species of tree that lives for many years.
Its stem, leaves and bark have medicinal properties that were used by ancient civilizations.
Its name comes from Nahuatl and means “an old water tree” because it grows on the banks of rivers or springs and never loses its foliage.
It is a tree native to Mexico, although there are also trees in southern Texas and northwest Guatemala.
It is known as: ahuehuete, sabino, Mexican cypress, Moctezuma cypress and ahuehué.
And if you have plans to take a trip, alone, with friends or family, to admire the many colonial tourist attractions of San Miguel de Allende, give yourself the pleasure of deviating a few kilometers to witness the majesty of that ahuehuete that is hidden and which is reached through a tunnel.
Source: lasillarota
