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Traditional ecological knowledge is a cummulative body of knowledge, practices, and beliefs about the relationship between humans, local ecosystems, and culture. Near Puerto Madero in Mexico, there is a lot of tropical moist forest. I think that they would leave there as knowledge would be the fact to cut down trees and plants that weren't in great shape at the end of the dry season and burned.

Another thing they probably left was to start to plant corn and crops around may or the beggining of the rainy season.

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Puerto Madero has an elevation of 33 ft. The topography within 2 miles of the port is essentially flat, with a max elevation change of 79 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 16 feet.

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They might have left how to hunt for their offspring. This is important for the next generation to know.

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Upwelling periods lead to low temperatures which then lead to low dissolved oxygen and high nutrient concentration, as well as sandy sediments and insignificant river discharges

There are many large nutrient sources like, land uses and human activites, that contribute nitrogen and phorsphorus to the water.

Croplands contribute by using commercial fertilizer on seven major crops, and animal manure that is recovered from confined animals.

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The average salinity is around 33 grams of dissolved salts per kilogram of seawater

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Channel

16-20 ft.

An ocean channel is an elongated water body lying between two landmasses. This is the wide staight that leads up to the port.

The cargo pier

26-30 ft.

The cargo pier is the raised structure that rises above a body of water and usally juts out from its shore to be able to load and unload goods.

Anchorage:

26-40 ft.

The anchorage is the body of water that is suitable for a ship to anchor in. This is why the anchorage has the deepest levels.

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Puerto Madero is located near a large body of water. The average water temp does not vary significantly over the course of the year. It remains within 2 degrees of 85 degrees F throughout.

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Climate: https://en.climate-data.org/north-america/mexico/federal-district/mexico-city-1093/
Water Temp: https://weatherspark.com/y/10526/Average-Weather-in-Puerto-Madero-Mexico-Year-Round
New Sources
https://weatherspark.com/y/10526/Average-Weather-in-Puerto-Madero-Mexico-Year-Round
https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/soconusco

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL076085

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Don't over fish the waters

When fishing for shrimp be sure to move around spots because there is a great upwelling.

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The purpose of the port in the early years was a multipurpose terminal and fishing pier, making exports of bananas and corn in the early 80's.

Bananas

Corn

The area was also famous in prehistoric and colonial times for its high-quality cacao and later for its coffee.

Coffe

Cacao

There are forested wetlands of mangroves and cypress swamps as well as oyster and coral reefs.

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The Climate is very hot all year old. The wet season is overcast, and the dry season is mostly clear. A wet day in Puerto Madero is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitataion. The wetter season lasts 5.8 months, from May 8 to November 1, with a greater than 41% chance of a given day being a wet day. The drier season lasts 6.2 seasons, from november 1st to May 8th. The sunshine length of the day varies over the course of the year. In 2020, the shortest day is December 21, with 11 hours, 15 minutes of daylight. The longest day is June 20th, with 13 hours, 0 minutes of daylight.

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Tuna

Adjacent to the port there was a Tuna Canning plant. This started the major fleet of ships arriving at the port

Shrimp and Sharks

Fishing activites of shrimp boats and shark fishing boats were popular.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of human occupation, when small groups living here lived primarly on shellfish

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This chart shows when the waves exceeded 5 ft. You can see that the summer has the smallest waves.

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There was a normal faulting earthquake in 2017 that ruptured within the subducting Cocos plate. This plate was 70 km from the middle American Trench. This plate movement causes many earthquakes, tsunamis, and seismic activity. A large earthquake in 2017 actually ruptured the subducting Cocos plate that goes beneath Mexico and Central America off shore of the port.