Puerto Aventuras has all 90 of its watch cameras working again

Puerto Aventuras closed its latest reporting quarter with all 90 of the surveillance cameras across the gated complex in operation, according to the residents' association's quarterly maintenance report published on September 25. That is a small but measurable step up from July, when the association's own count had five of the 90 temporarily out of service on power-supply faults, and it is the clearest single measure of an upkeep program that runs quietly behind one of the Riviera Maya's best-known private communities.

Puerto Aventuras is a gated marina-and-golf community on the coast south of Playa del Carmen, run by its own residents' association, the Asociación de Colonos Propietarios y Fideicomisarios de Puerto Aventuras. The association maintains the shared grounds, roads, access points and camera network, and publishes a report each quarter setting out what it did. The latest, dated September 25, covers the three months from June 15 to September 15 and reads as a maintenance record: what was repaired, what was brought back online, and what was checked. It is not, and does not claim to be, an independent audit.

What the report lists

The camera system now stands at 90 units in operation, the report says, distributed as 24 at the main entrance, 63 along the complex's roadways and three radar cameras. Over the quarter the association's team lists 26 cameras returned to service, three camera repairs carried out, and four poles that had been without power attended to. It also records work on the ground rather than on the cameras alone: four access points and barriers repaired, and preventive checks at two of the community's beach-access locations, the Beach Club and Punta Matzoma.

One line in the report is worth separating out, because it is a coverage figure rather than a repair count. The association says a solar-panel-backed CCTV installation that was running at 95 percent in the previous quarter is now at 100 percent working. Power is the recurring constraint across both reports: cameras and poles drop out when the supply to them does, which is why the count of poles attended to and the solar-panel percentage matter as much as the number of repairs. That electrical backdrop sits alongside the separate, ongoing work by the federal utility CFE on poles and transformers in and around the community, which we covered in a separate article and do not repeat here.

Two reports, side by side

The “all 90 working again” framing is a reading of two documents placed next to each other, not a claim the association makes. Its July 7 report, covering March to June, listed the same 90-camera system with five of them temporarily out of service on power-supply faults, and the panel-backed CCTV at 95 percent. The September report lists all 90 in operation and the panels at 100 percent. What the association does not say is that the five specific cameras from July were the ones restored; the 26 reactivations it reports this quarter are a larger, separate figure, and the two reports do not map one to the other. The honest statement is the comparison: fewer cameras out in September than in July, on the association's own numbers.

What this does and does not establish

This is a single source. Everything above comes from one self-published quarterly report by the residents' association itself, with the association's July report as the only baseline, and there is no independent or press verification of any of it. A maintenance report of this kind is the association's own account of its own work: it is the reasonable record of what the body that runs the complex says it did, and it is not audited, not confirmed by a third party, and not something a reader can check except by trusting the association. That is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up. What the report does establish, within those limits, is narrow and concrete: a camera network that was slightly short of full coverage in July is reported at full coverage in September, and the association is documenting the reactivations, repairs, poles and panel work behind that.

Sources: Asociación de Colonos Propietarios y Fideicomisarios de Puerto Aventuras, quarterly report for June 15 to September 15, 2026, published September 25, 2026, and quarterly report for March to June, 2026, published July 7, 2026. Both are the association's own publications; neither has been independently verified, and no press coverage of either exists. For more on the community and its homes, see our Puerto Aventuras page.