Cancún (Spanish pronunciation: [kaŋˈkun]) is a coastal city in Mexico In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory, which was administered as the viceroyalty of New Spain which would eventually become Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo Quintana Roo is a state of Mexico, on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula. It borders the States of Yucatán and Campeche to the north and west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the nation of Belize to the south. Quintana Roo also claims territory which gives it a small border with Guatemala in the south west of the state, although this, on the Yucatán Peninsula The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America. Cancún is located on the Yucatan Channel The Yucatán Channel is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico that separates Mexico In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory, which was administered as the viceroyalty of New Spain which would eventually become Mexico from the island of Cuba The Republic of Cuba (pronounced /ˈkjuːbə/ ; Spanish: República de Cuba, pronounced [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkuβa] ( listen)) is an island country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second in the Greater Antilles The Greater Antilles are one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola , and Puerto Rico, the Greater Antilles constitute almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies. The Cancún region is sometimes known as the Mexican Caribbean.

Cancún is the municipal seat of the Benito Juárez municipality and a world-renowned tourist Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity resort A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays or vacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company. Such a self-contained resort attempts to provide for most of a vacationer's wants while remaining on the premises, such as food, drink, lodging, sports,. The city center is located on the mainland which connects the Nichupté and lagoons to a narrow 7-shaped island where the modern beachfront hotels are located.

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History

Monument to the history of Mexico

As documented in the earliest colonial sources the island of Cancún was originally known to its Maya inhabitants The Maya peoples constitute a diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a convenient collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term embraces many distinct populations, as Nizuc (Yucatec Maya [niʔ suʔuk]) meaning either "promontory" or "point of grass".[1] In the years after the Conquest, much of the population died off or left as a result of disease, warfare, piracy, and famines, leaving only small settlements on Isla Mujeres and Cozumel Island.

The name Cancún, Cancum or Cankun first appears on maps from the 18th century. The meaning of Cancún is unknown, and it is also unknown whether the name is of Maya origin. If it is of Maya origin, possible translations include "Place/Seat/Throne of the Snake" or "Enchanted Snake". Snake iconography was prevalent at the pre-columbian site of Nizuc.[2]

When development was started on Jan. 23, 1970, Isla Cancún had only three residents, caretakers of the coconut plantation of Don José de Jesús Lima Gutiérrez, who lived on Isla Mujeres, and there were only 117 people living in nearby Puerto Juárez, a fishing village and military base.[3]

"Due to the reluctance of investors to bet on an unknown area, the Mexican government had to finance the first nine hotels."[3] The first hotel financed was the Hyatt Cancun Caribe, but the first hotel actually built was the Playa Blanca, which later became a Blue Bay hotel, and is now Temptation Resort.

Most 'Cancunenses' here are from Yucatán and other Mexican states. A growing number are from the rest of the Americas The Americas, or America, are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World, comprising the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used to refer to the United States of America. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total and Europe Europe is one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus region (Specification of borders) and the Black Sea to the southeast. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean and. The municipal authorities have struggled to provide public services for the constant influx of people, as well as to control squatters and irregular developments, which now occupy an estimated ten to fifteen percent of the mainland area on the fringes of the city.[3]

In the 21st century, Cancún had largely avoided bloodshed The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place between rival drug cartels and government forces in Mexico. Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for a few decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate associated with the trade of illegal drugs. However, Cancún is regarded as a popular transshipment point for Colombian cocaine Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic. Specifically, it is a serotonin-norepinephrine-dopamine and reportedly known for retail drug sales to tourists and as a center of money laundering In the past, the term "money laundering" was applied only to financial transactions related to organized crime. Today its definition is often expanded by government and international regulators such as the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to mean any financial transaction which generates an asset or a value as the result of.[4] The links with Cancún date from the 1990s and early 2000s, when the area was controlled by the Juárez and Gulf drug cartels. In recent years Los Zetas, a group that broke away from the Gulf Cartel The Gulf Cartel is a Mexican drug trafficking organization (MDTO) based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Heavy operations also include the cities of Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo. Its chief rival is the Sinaloa Cartel. The Gulf Cartel traffics cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin across the border to major cities in the United States. The group is, has taken control of many smuggling routes through the Yucatán, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration is a law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States. Not only is the DEA the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,.[5]

Mayan archaeological sites

"El Rey" ruins in Cancún

There are some (non-relative) small Mayan vestiges of the pre-Columbian The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during the Early Modern period Maya civilization The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period , according to the Mesoamerican chronology, many Maya cities reached their highest state in Cancún. El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) is located in the Hotel Zone. El Meco, a more substantial site, is found on the mainland just outside the city limits on the road to Punta Sam.

Close by in the Riviera Maya and the Grand Costa Maya, there are sites such as Cobá and Muyil (Riviera) the small Polé (now Xcaret Xcaret is a Maya civilization archaeological site located on the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the modern-day state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. The site was occupied by the pre-Columbian Maya and functioned as a port for navigation and an important Maya trading center. Some of the site's original structures are contained within), and Kohunlich Kohunlich is a large archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located on the Yucatán Peninsula about 25 km east of the Rio Bec region, and about 65 km west of Chetumal on Highway 186, and 9 km south of the road. The Spanish name does not actually derive from Maya but from the English Cohune Ridge where cohune palm grew, Kinichná, Dzibanché, Oxtankah, Tulum, and Chacchoben, in the south of the state. Chichén Itzá Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico is in the neighboring state of Yucatán Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Congress of Yucatan was installed on August 20, 1823; and was admitted to the Mexican federation on 21 December 1823, being the 8th state admitted. The Yucatan peninsula includes three states: Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; all three modern.

City layout

Apart from the island tourist zone (actually part of the world's second-longest coral reef), the Mexican residential or "Mainland" section of the city, known as "El Centro," follows a master plan that consists of "supermanzanas"[6] (superblocks), giant trapeziods with an central, open, not-residential area cut in by u-shaped residential streets. These open centers usually have walkways and 'sidewalks' around a central garden park, or soccer fields, or a library, etc. which make the mainland "Mexican" Cancun surprisingly bicycle-friendly. The residential roads of central or 'Mainland' Cancun, U-shaped and culs-de-sacs, insulate housing from the noise and congestion of the main flow of traffic. Mainland Cancun has a very appealing central market that resembles an outlet mall, colorful buildings on a pedestrian city block.

Ave. Tulum is the main north-south artery (connecting downtown to the airport some 30 km (19 mi) to south). Tulum is bisected by Ave. Cobá. East of Ave. Tulum, Cobá becomes Ave. Kukulcan which serves as the primary road that runs through the long 7-shaped hotel zone. Ave. Tulum is terminated on the north side by Ave. Paseo José López Portillo which connects to the main highway to Chichén Itzá Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico and Mérida. Another major north-south road is Ave. Bonampak which runs roughly parallel to Ave. Tulum. The main ferry to Isla Mujeres is located in Puerto Juarez on Ave. Paseo José López Portillo.

The original master plan was repeatedly modified, and on the mainland, often ignored. To save on the cost of installing sewer systems and other public services, the design of much of the rest of the city reverted to the grid plan after Hurricane Gilbert Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and created widespread destruction in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin behind only Hurricane Wilma of the 2005 hurricane season, which was the in 1988. The newest upper-middle-class residential areas reflect the original plan, but are much less intimate. Less expensive developments are comprised almost entirely of identical one- or two-story small row-houses, sometimes built around interior plazas. Almost all buildings on the mainland are below four stories high.

Tourism

Skyline at night Traditional dancers provide evening entertainment

The Hotel Zone of Cancún is shaped like a 7[7] with bridges on each end connecting to the mainland. Hotels on the vertical or long side of the 7 tend to have rougher beaches and beach erosion can be a problem. Resorts on the horizontal or short end of the seven tend to have more gentle surf because the waves here are blocked by the island of Isla Mujeres which lies just off shore. The Hotel Zone offers a broad range of accommodations, ranging from relatively inexpensive motel-style facilities in the older section closest to the mainland, to high-priced luxury hotels in the later sections, great malls, theme parks and swimming with dolphins activity.

On the opposite side of the island from the Caribbean Sea is the Nichupté Lagoon, which is used for boating excursions and jet-ski jungle tours.

Cancún is also the gateway to the Riviera Maya, another tourist pull in the area, where people go attracted by the numerous archaeological sites, as Cobá and Tulum, the many cenotes A cenote is a sinkhole with exposed rocky edges containing groundwater. It is typically found in the Yucatán Peninsula and some nearby Caribbean islands. The term is derived from a word used by the low-land Yucatec Maya to refer to any location where groundwater is accessible, charming towns as Playa del Carmen Playa del Carmen is a city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, in the northeast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The city is the seat of the Solidaridad municipality. In the 2005 census, the city had a population of about 100,383 people and it is rapidly growing in population. It is the third largest city in Quintana Roo, after Cancún and and theme parks such as Xcaret Eco Park, Xel-Ha and Xplor.

English Sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has created a monumental underwater art museum in the National Marine Park of Cancun.[8] The Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA), the Cancun underwater museum, will consist of more than 400 life-sized sculptures creating artificial reefs for marine life to colonise and inhabit. The works are located in clear shallow waters and visible to divers, snorkelers and visitors in glass-bottomed boats.

Transportation

Cancún is served by Cancún International Airport. It has many flights to North America, Central America, South America, Asia, And Europe. The Cancun international airport is considered the second most important airport in Mexico. It is located on the northeast of the Yucatan Peninsula serving an average of more than ten million passengers per year. The airport is located around 12 miles from the hotel zone, approximately 20 minutes trip by car. [9] There is also a public transit bus system, servicing the hotel zone. The island of Isla Mujeres is located off the coast and is accessible by boat from Puerto Juárez.

Climate

Cancún has a tropical climate (Köppen The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen himself notably in 1918 and 1936. Later, German climatologist Rudolf Geiger collaborated with Köppen on changes to the classification Aw Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the categories Aw and As of the Köppen climate classification. These climates have monthly mean temperature above 18º C in every month of the year and a pronounced dry season, with the driest month having precipitation less than 60 mm and also less), with little temperature differences between seasons, but pronounced rainy seasons. The city is warm year-round, and moderated by onshore trade winds, with an annual mean temperature of 27.1 °C (80.8 °F). Unlike inland areas of the Yucatán Peninsula, sea breezes restrict high temperatures from reaching 35 °C (95 °F) on most afternoons. Annual rainfall is around 1,340 millimetres (52.8 in), falling on 115 days per year. More temperate conditions occur from November to February with occasional refreshing northerly breezes, it is drier and becomes hotter in March and April. It is hottest from May to September, due to proximity to the Caribbean and Gulf humidity is high the year round, especially so during hurricane season (averages close to 70% on rainfree days).[10]

Climate data for Cancún
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 27.9 (82.2) 28.7 (83.7) 29.9 (85.8) 31.5 (88.7) 32.7 (90.9) 33.0 (91.4) 33.4 (92.1) 33.6 (92.5) 32.7 (90.9) 31.0 (87.8) 29.6 (85.3) 28.2 (82.8) 31.0 (87.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) 24.3 (75.7) 24.7 (76.5) 25.7 (78.3) 27.5 (81.5) 28.6 (83.5) 29.1 (84.4) 29.3 (84.7) 29.2 (84.6) 28.7 (83.7) 27.4 (81.3) 26.2 (79.2) 24.7 (76.5) 27.1 (80.8)
Average low °C (°F) 20.6 (69.1) 20.7 (69.3) 21.5 (70.7) 23.4 (74.1) 24.4 (75.9) 25.2 (77.4) 25.2 (77.4) 24.8 (76.6) 24.7 (76.5) 23.8 (74.8) 22.7 (72.9) 21.2 (70.2) 23.2 (73.8)
Rainfall Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface. On Earth, it is the condensation of atmospheric water vapor into drops of water heavy mm (inches) 136.4 (5.37) 45.7 (1.799) 52.7 (2.075) 37.9 (1.492) 88.0 (3.465) 137.5 (5.413) 57.0 (2.244) 109.5 (4.311) 224.6 (8.843) 221.1 (8.705) 131.6 (5.181) 95.7 (3.768) 1,337.7 (52.665)
Avg. rainy days 10.5 5.4 5.4 4.1 6.6 11.1 8.8 10.0 14.0 16.3 12.4 10.6 115.2
Source: Servicio Meteorologico Nacional [11]
Cancun
Climate chart ()
J F M A M J J A S O N D
136 28 21 46 29 21 53 30 22 38 32 23 88 33 24 138 33 25 57 33 25 110 34 25 225 33 25 221 31 24 132 30 23 96 28 21
average max. and min. temperatures in °C
precipitation totals in mm
source: SMN [11]
Imperial conversion
J F M A M J J A S O N D
5.4 82 69 1.8 84 69 2.1 86 71 1.5 89 74 3.5 91 76 5.4 91 77 2.2 92 77 4.3 92 77 8.9 91 76 8.7 88 75 5.2 85 73 3.8 83 70
average max. and min. temperatures in °F
precipitation totals in inches

The tropical storm season lasts from May to December, the rainy season extends into January with peak precipitation in September. February to early May tend to be drier with only occasional scattered showers. Cancún is located in one of the main Caribbean hurricane impact areas. Although large hurricanes are rare, they have struck near to Cancún in recent years, Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Wilma was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Wilma was the twenty-second storm , thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and fourth Category 5 hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 season in 2005 being the largest. Hurricane Gilbert Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and created widespread destruction in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin behind only Hurricane Wilma of the 2005 hurricane season, which was the made a devastating direct hit on Cancún in September 1988 and the tourist hotels needed to be rebuilt. In both cases, federal, state and municipal authorities were well prepared to deal with most of the effects on tourists and local residents. [12] Hurricane Dean in 2007 also made its mark on the city of Cancún.

Hurricane Gilbert

Main article: Hurricane Gilbert Hurricane Gilbert was an extremely powerful Cape Verde-type hurricane that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season and created widespread destruction in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. It is the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin behind only Hurricane Wilma of the 2005 hurricane season, which was the

1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin. It landed on the Yucatan peninsula after crossing over the island of Cozumel. In the Cancún region, a loss of $87 million (1989 USD The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents) due to a decline in tourism was estimated for the months October, November and December in 1988.[13]

Hurricane Wilma

Main article: Hurricane Wilma Hurricane Wilma was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Wilma was the twenty-second storm , thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and fourth Category 5 hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 season

On October 21, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, with strong winds in excess of 150 mph (240 km/h). The hurricane's eye first passed over the island of Cozumel Cozumel (Kùutsmil in Modern Maya) is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, opposite the Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. Cozumel is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) of the state of Quintana Roo. Cozumel is a tourist destination for its scuba diving and snorkeling. The, and then made an official landfall near Playa del Carmen in the state of Quintana Roo at around midnight on October 22 EDT with winds near 140 mph (230 km/h). Portions of the island of Cozumel experienced the calm eye of Wilma for several hours with some blue skies and sunshine visible at times. The eye slowly drifted northward, with the center passing just to the west of Cancún, Quintana Roo.

Hurricane Dean

Main article: Hurricane Dean

To avoid having tourists wind up in uncomfortable situations in public shelters, authorities asked tourism operators to suspend sending tourists to Cancún when Hurricane Dean approached, and encouraged airlines to send empty planes, which were then used to evacuate tourists.[14] In 2007, the eye of Hurricane Dean landed 190 miles (310 km) to the south of Cancún. Fierce winds at the outside of its impact cone stripped some of the sand off 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of beach from Punta Cancún (Camino Real Hotel) to Punta Nizuc (Club Med) [15].

Education

Although Cancún is better known as a travel and tourism destination, in recent years some colleges and universities have been offering higher education to both Mexican and foreign students.

The first higher education institution established in the area was the Instituto Tecnológico de Cancún. Other followed, including Universidad La Salle Cancún, Universidad Anáhuac Cancún, Universidad Tecnológica de Cancún, Universidad del Caribe, and more recently the Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo and the Tec Milenium.

Sister cities

External links

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References

  1. ^ [1] A proper Maya spelling of Nizuc may be “Ni’ su’uk” which translates as “promontory” or “point of grass”-Source-Some Historic Notes and Observations on Isla Cancún, Quintana Roo, published at FAMSIby Andrews, Anthony P.
  2. ^ [2] Snake iconography was prevalent at the pre-columbian site of Nizuc-Source- Historic Notes and Observations on Isla Cancún, Quintana Roo, p. 5 published at FAMSI
  3. ^ a b c Siegel, Jules (2006). Cancun User's Guide. Lulu.com. pp. 204. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 1411639448.
  4. ^ Booth, William (May 27, 2010). [[3] "Mayor of Cancun, Mexico, charged with drug trafficking, money laundering"]. Washington Post. Associated Press. [4].
  5. ^ Hawley, Chris (May 26, 2010). [[5] "Drugs cast cloud over Mexican paradise"]. USA Today. [6]. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
  6. ^ [7] El Centro supermanzanas-Source-La arquitectura norteamericana, motor y espejo de la arquitectura española ... By José Manuel Pozo Municio, Javier Martínez González
  7. ^ [8] This Cancun map showing the hotel zone shaped like the number 7.
  8. ^ [9] Mexico's Giant underwater museum
  9. ^ [10] CANCUN AIRPORT MAP (CUN) ICAO CODE (MMUN) LATITUDE 21.0° LONGITUDE 86.9°
  10. ^ [11] Cancun Weather
  11. ^ a b [[12] "Normales Climatologicas 1971-2000"]. National Meteorological Service of Mexico. [13]. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
  12. ^ [14] Hurricane Dean On Course for Cancun
  13. ^ Benigono Aguirre. "Cancun under Gilbert: Prelimenary Observations" (PDF). International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters March 1989, Vol. 7, No.1, pp. 69-82. http://www.udel.edu/DRC/Aguirre/publications/ag35.pdf. Retrieved October 1, 2006.
  14. ^ [15] Vacationers flee Cancun and Belize resorts after Dean, now a Category 5 storm, barrels past the Cayman Islands
  15. ^ Novedades de Quintana Roo
State of Quintana Roo Quintana Roo is a state of Mexico, on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula. It borders the States of Yucatán and Campeche to the north and west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the nation of Belize to the south. Quintana Roo also claims territory which gives it a small border with Guatemala in the south west of the state, although this
Chetumal Chetumal (coordinates: 18°30′N 88°18′W / 18.5°N 88.3°W) is a city on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It is the capital of the state of Quintana Roo and the municipal seat of the Municipality of Othón P. Blanco. In 2005 it had a population of 136,825 people (capital 1Joined the federation under the name of Coahuila and Texas. In 1833 the district of Bexar seceded constitutionally from the state to form the separate state of Texas which became an independent republic in 1836, and the name of the state was shortened to Coahuila. Briefly, in 1856 Nuevo León annexed Coahuila in a referendum and declared its)
Municipalities (Seats)

Cozumel Cozumel (Kùutsmil in Modern Maya) is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, opposite the Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. Cozumel is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) of the state of Quintana Roo. Cozumel is a tourist destination for its scuba diving and snorkeling. The (San Miguel de Cozumel) · Felipe Carrillo Puerto (Felipe Carrillo Puerto) · Isla Mujeres (Isla Mujeres) · Othón P. Blanco (Chetumal Chetumal (coordinates: 18°30′N 88°18′W / 18.5°N 88.3°W) is a city on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It is the capital of the state of Quintana Roo and the municipal seat of the Municipality of Othón P. Blanco. In 2005 it had a population of 136,825 people) · Benito Juárez (Cancún) · José María Morelos (José María Morelos) · Lázaro Cárdenas (Kantunilkín) · Solidaridad (Playa del Carmen Playa del Carmen is a city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, in the northeast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The city is the seat of the Solidaridad municipality. In the 2005 census, the city had a population of about 100,383 people and it is rapidly growing in population. It is the third largest city in Quintana Roo, after Cancún and) · Tulum (Tulum)

Places of Interest

Akumal · Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park · Bacalar · Banco Chinchorro · Chacchoben · Coba · Isla Contoy · Isla Holbox · Kohunlich · Mahahual · Muyil · Puerto Morelos · Punta Allen · Punta Sur · Riviera Maya · San Gervasio · Sian Ka'an · Tulum · Xcalak · Xcaret · Xelha · Yo'okop

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Q. Going to a wedding in Mayan Riviera but thinking of staying in Cancun. Thank you for your help!
Asked by burtongrl - Tue Oct 14 15:17:04 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Mayan Riviera is generally anything south of Cancun down to Tulum, it's about 100 km stretch. (So I disagree slightly with Rhino). South of Tulum is generally called the Costa Maya but of course different people and tour companies use different terms. So, using my definition of the MR, it could be anywhere from 15 minutes to 75 minutes drive if the wedding was at the far south end around Tulum. (If you are using Rhino's definition then Xcalak would be 5 or 6 hours) Buses, taxi's and collectivo's are all good options as is renting a car (If you are not drinking at the wedding). If it were me - I'd only taxi or rent a car since there is no way I'm going to ride a bus or collectivo in wedding attire. I'd be drenched in sweat by the time I… [cont.]
Answered by Rockin' Mel S - Wed Oct 15 18:39:23 2008

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