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Xcalak (Spanish pronunciation:) is a village of 375 inhabitants [1] in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.It is one of the last "unspoiled" stretches of the Mexican Caribbean located on the southern end of the Costa Maya.
The beach extends from Xcalak in the south to the southern border of Sian Ka'an in the north, a distance of approximately 100 kilometers (62 mi). Xcalak is approximately 60 kilometers (37 mi) south of the Costa Maya cruise port, and the fishing village of Mahahual is only about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) away.
Terminal map. The airport is situated at an elevation of 12 metres (39 ft) above mean sea level, covering an area of 230 hectares (570 acres).It features a single asphalt runway, designated as 10/28, measuring 2,208 metres (7,244 ft).
It was formerly the fifth-largest municipality in land area in Mexico at 17,189.7 square kilometres (6,637.0 sq mi), [2] occupying more than a third of the entire state. [4] It lost about 40% of its territory when the Bacalar Municipality was created out of Othón P. Blanco on February 2, 2011.
Chetumal has become known for its traditional wood buildings, few of which survive. In Pre-Columbian times, a city called Chactemal (sometimes rendered as "Chetumal" in early European sources), probably today's Santa Rita in Belize, [6] [7] was the capital of a Maya state of the same name that roughly controlled the southern quarter of modern Quintana Roo and the northeast portion of Belize.
Mahahual (Spanish pronunciation:) is a village on the Costa Maya in the municipality of Othon P. Blanco on the Caribbean Sea coast of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Previously a fishing village, it is now a rapidly developing tourist center.
Puerto Morelos (Spanish pronunciation: ['pweɾto mo'ɾelos]) is a municipality, town, and seaport in Quintana Roo, Mexico's easternmost state, on the Yucatán Peninsula.The town is located in the northeast of the state, about 36 km (22 mi) south of the resort city of Cancún, and about 30 km (19 mi) north of the city of Playa del Carmen.
The Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1403) covers the series of disconnected mangrove habitats along the eastern coast of Central America.These salt-water wetlands are found in river deltas, lagoons, and low-lying areas facing the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, from Tampico, Mexico to central Panama.