The Universidad del Mar «UMAR» is a public institution of higher education and scientific research of the Government of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, with the support and recognition of the federal government.

It belongs to the Oaxaca State University System (OSUS) and has three campuses, Puerto Angel, Puerto Escondido, and Huatulco, and a Center of Tourist Training (CECAT).

Its main functions are teaching, research, cultural diffusion and promoting development.

[1] UMAR was founded in 1992 at the request of Oaxaca Governor Heladio Ramírez López.

It was designed and executed by Modesto Seara Vázquez, rector of the university.

The Universidad del Mar has positioned itself as one of the best universities in Mexico, as demonstrated by results achieved in the last 13 years, when the bachelor's degrees in tourism administration and international relations have obtained first place in the CENEVAL knowledge test.

[2] To decentralize higher education;[3] To avoid the concentration of academic and scientific resources in areas that are becoming disproportionately strong and increasingly differentiated from the rest of the country; To prevent the human decapitalization of the most disadvantaged regions, which due to the lack of educational opportunities see young generations leave at an early age that facilitates their permanent uprooting, due to the emotional and sentimental ties and interests that are produced in the place of residence, and which makes their recovery practically impossible; To improve knowledge of the economic resources of the concerned region in order to lay the foundation for sound economic and social development; To train social leaders in the public and private spheres; To introduce a professional elite into a society that lacks one, to serve as a catalyst for transformation; To improve the cultural competitiveness of the area of influence of the respective university, by combining the reception of ideas and modernizing concepts, with the conservation and reinforcement of the own values; and To contribute in a globalized world to the competitiveness of the economy of Oaxaca and Mexico, seeking the highest standards of quality in teaching and research, without an inferiority complex.

The motto Mare Nostrum Veritabile Faciendum means "Let us truly make the sea ours".

[4] UMAR offers 16 undergraduate programs in addition to 11 postgraduate studies.

[6] Bachelor's degrees Postgraduate Studies Masters Doctorates UMAR has forty laboratories,[7] for example: UMAR has 9 Research Institutes[8] Books[9] The Decisive Hour.

Lozano Vázquez, Alberto, Marco Antonio Guadarrama Vega, Saúl Mendoza Palacios, Carlos Gabriel Argüelles Arredondo (Coord.).

La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 años.

Fundamentos de reproducción, nutrición y su manejo en cautiverio.

Arcos García, José Luis and Roberto López Pozos.

Atlas de corales pétreos (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) del Pacífico mexicano.

Mujeres Empresarias y Turismo en la Costa Oaxaqueña.

Fernández Aldecua, María José and Pascal Barradas Salas.

Biología y aprovechamiento del camarón Duende Streptocephalus (Crustacea-branchiopoda).