[1] There is an ecotourism center in the Chayotopec community of the municipality, accessible from the town via a dirt road.

The center provides accommodation and arranges hiking and birdwatching, visits to coffee production facilities and local food.

The town is connected by a paved road to Ciudad Ixtepec and is served by a bus run by the Union of Zapotec and Mixe People of the Isthmus (Spanish: Unión de Pueblos Zapotecos y Mixes del Istmo).

[1] In 1982 the farmers of Santa Maria Guienagati and Guevea de Humboldt, with advice from Jesuit mission team from the Diocese of Tehuantepec, formed the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Isthmus Region to help gain better prices for their coffee crop.

As it matured, it paid increased attention to the requirements of women and youth, and to health, education and nutrition.