Petén d'Arenas

Five-thirty in the morning at the Telchac malecón. The fishing village wakes up to the small fishing boats heading out at dawn — the residents on bicycles along the malecón, the small village restaurants firing up for the breakfast service, the day starting in the cool of dawn.

The Yucatán gulf coast — the corridor known locally as the Emerald Coast — stretches roughly ninety-eight kilometers along the northern shore of the peninsula, from Chelem in the west through Progreso, Chicxulub Puerto, Telchac Puerto, and San Crisanto. The coastline is distinguished by crystalline emerald waters, powdery amber sand, and the secondary-residence rhythm that has shaped the corridor's character for generations — earning Chicxulub Puerto the local nickname of the 'Yucatán Hamptons.' The corridor pairs the gulf-coast beaches with proximity to Mérida (twenty-five to seventy-five minutes inland depending on the village) and a chain of fishing villages, malecones, and small harbors that anchor the social rhythm. The corridor reads as the part of Yucatán the residents who came for the gulf-coast secondary-residence side of the peninsula chose deliberately.

Inside Peten d'Arenas, the architecture takes the gulf coast at its ultimate scale. Each residence spans 7,535 square feet across layouts drawn for indoor-outdoor living: large-format primary suites with their own terraces, living spaces drawn around the gulf view, kitchens scaled for someone who actually cooks rather than reheats. The materials are honest — wood, stone, glass.

Delivery in 2026. Pricing at $4,127,900 MXN. Peten d'Arenas sits in Telchac Puerto at the rare scale of a true large-format residence on the gulf corridor — a footprint that the smaller condo projects simply cannot replicate. For the buyer who came to Yucatán for the most considered version of gulf-coast secondary-residence living at the family scale, this is one of the most distinctive new addresses in the neighborhood.