Chontales from Tabasco: El cayuco In the past in the area where chontales have lived there were more water than roads, the cayuco was the perfect resource for transporting people and products. Mayan people traveled many kilometers using them. Today this small boat help Chontales from Tabasco for fishing but is not a transport of daily use. Besides there are no big trees in the land and goverment ban cut trees. People who know build cayucos now work in other thing, also there are bussines who affect them becouse they build cayucos made of industrial materials. There is a tradition in Nacajuca, in the Fest, girls decorate their cayucos and people decide which is the most beatiful cayuco.