Lighthouse on the island Sakrisifios (App. Isla de Sacrificios - Victims of the island) surprises with its history. In 1518 the Spaniard Juan de Grijalva, a researcher at the Gulf of Mexico, discovered this unusual island. According to legend, there was a sacrificial altar, where people on a certain day sacrificed to the gods most beautiful woman. The Spanish conquistadors found the remains of human sacrifices here since the Mesoamerican cultures. With the arrival of the Spaniards, it was on this island, where they built a special house, took away the dying - from wounds or epidemics. Anthropologists have found the remains of graves and the bases of temples tribes Totonac and Olmec.

Besides the beauty of the lighthouse, admire beautiful and rare coral reefs surrounding the island. In the 90-ies it was decided to close the island due to the deterioration of the rare corals, which are constantly plundered by poachers for handicrafts. In recent years, negotiations are ongoing between the government and tourism companies, who insist that the island open to the public, but environmentalists and biologists fear that the destruction process will only accelerate.

Today, the lighthouse on the island of victims working as a guide for ships heading to the port of Veracruz. But this unusual lighthouse, it runs from 120 solar panels of 250 watts, and the whole construction of the lighthouse is able to withstand winds of over 200 miles per hour. Energy argue that the fight against climate change, the conversion of light energy savings of up to six thousand liters of diesel fuel per month and reduce the production of 187,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.