Mazatlan’s sparkling beaches have been cast into darkness as the total solar eclipse reaches its maximum coverage.
Hundreds of gathered faces were illuminated only by the screens of their cell phones as they tried to capture the slightly more than 4 minutes of totality.
Palm trees were silhouetted against a faint glow near the horizon like one of the resort’s famous sunsets, but coming before noon.
Karen Ibarra, of Colombia, is a researcher at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. She came to Mazatlan for the eclipse.
As darkness blanketed the coast she said, “seeing the corona is the best.”
BY ALEXIS TRIBOULARD
MAZATLAN, Mexico