The guides of Copper Canyon Adventures trips are one of the main reason why the trips are so wonderful.
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COPPER CANYON:
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CRISTINA HALLAL N.
It is my pleasure to say that I have been working around Copper Canyon for over 20 years in different Jobs. I really liked to be involved in Hotel´s management however when I started to be guiding I thought: nothing could be better than this. I really like people and I love to share with everybody all what I have learn about the Copper Canyon area.
In different jobs around here I have had the opportunity to lead large and small groups but until April 2001 I started to be guiding as a professional guide for the Owner of Copper Canyon Adventures who invited me to work for him and I accepted, and definitely my life have changed in many ways. This job started to give me the best experience in my life, making friends from all over the world, growing in knowledge about the area, and loving more and more this piece of the planet that I feel very belong to me.
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 CARLOS GRANADOS
I’m a native from the state of Sinaloa. Living here has given me the chance to work in the Copper Canyon area since Los Mochis, where I currently live, is considered the gateway to the Copper Canyon.
I started working in tourism in the year 1996 with the Balderrama Hotel & Tours when they offer me the opportunity to be a local tour-guide and driver. After two years working with the company I became an independent guide and since after I have taken the following training.
It was in 1997 that I did my training in the Copper Canyon and after this I did my certification as a general tour-guide (NORMA-08) in Mazatlan (1998). After my certification I have accredited several courses: 40 hours in Ecotourism (1999), 20 hours in architecture (1999), 20 hours in sport fishing (1999), 180 hours in English for teacher’s training(2000), 160 hours in history of the State of Sinaloa (2002), a course of 12 trimesters in French(2004), and 40 hours in Tourism as Heritage (2006)
and 160 hours of general Mexican Culture (2008).
I’ve been working as an independent tour- guide in the Copper Canyon and adjacent areas like Sea of Cortez, Baja California, State of Sonora and State of Sinaloa for the last 14 years and have increased my knowledge in Botany, Geology, Ethnology, Mexican History and fauna, especially birds.
In order to keep up with the certification, we tour- guides are required to take 160 hours in a four year term of different courses related to tourism and general Mexican Culture in certified institutions, and then are validated by the federal tourism agency. We are obliged to keep taking courses twelve years after certification. We are on a learning process that I’m always willing to share.
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GUATEMALA:
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 Enrique Hernandez Salazar
After his finishing his archaeological degree from the University of San Carlos, Guatemala City in 1998, Enrique has focused his efforts towards Maya Archaeology in Guatemala. He has worked in the Mirador Basin 2003 to the present.
Field Experience:
June-September 2008: Exploration of the lowlands of Carrizal, the Sacbe Tintal-Mirador and Site Map of the site of La Naranjita.
June-July 2007: Explorations en the lowland of Carrizal under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Schreiner.
August-September 2007: Preliminary exploration and planimetric mapping of the site of El Arroyon.
June-August 2006: Test pits of Tintal en Complex Mano de Leon and Complex Henequen and explorations of the sacbe Tintal-Mirador.
August-September 2005: Explorations and excavation of the sacbe Tintal-Mirador under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Schreiner of the University of California Berkeley.
June-July 2005: El Mirador Archaeological site excavation in complex La Danta and excavation in West group of the site, under the supervision of Archaeologists Francisco Lopez.
May-June 2005: Archaeological sites of Wakna, El Guiro and Camotillo, Peten Guatemala. Planimetric map and register of looting, under the supervision of Lic. Hector Mejia.
July-Sept 2004 to present: Archaeological site of Xulnal, Tintal and Bejucal, Petén, Guatemala. Site map and register of looting, under the supervision of Lic. Hector Mejia.
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