Ideally you should avoid coming between June and October, when most of the year's 2000mm of rain falls, and roads and paths turn to mud. If you have been in touch with Fernando Ochoa, he will probably have told you the names of the people currently occupying the posts. The village, founded in 1968 by settlers from northern Chiapas, is a spread-out place of huts, grass, trees and a few concrete communal buildings, on a gentle slope running down to the Rio Perlas, which is the whole village's exquisitely beautiful bathing place. Other wildlife includes macaws, toucans and jaguars. You may hear jaguars at night.
Butterflies are prolific.
The island was the site of their last stand. At the lake shore you can camp or sling a hammock under a palapa shelter. There are plans to build a small house for tourists in the village, but in the meantime they usually put people up in the Comisaria, a kind of village hall which has one bed in it. You may be able to obtain tortillas in the mornings. There are a few slightly better stocked stores, and a couple of very basic comedores, in neighboring San Quintin.