El Tejoncito

El Tejoncito is a submerged rocky point between Chachacual and Maguey bays where the seafloor drops sharply from 5 m to 30 m along a fractured basalt wall decorated with orange cup corals, sea fans, and thick rope sponges. Current regularly sweeps the wall, concentrating planktivores and drawing roaming pelagics including silvertip sharks and Pacific sailfish during winter months. The shallows hide an extraordinary density of nudibranchs and flatworms among the algae-covered boulders, making El Tejoncito a rare Huatulco site that rewards both macro and wide-angle photography on the same dive.