enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Category:Tourist attractions in Yucatán - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tourist...

    Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Yucatán" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.

  3. List of Maya sites - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Maya_sites

    The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.

  4. List of World Heritage Sites in Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage...

    Mexico has 35 sites on the list (the highest number of sites per country in the Americas) and a further 24 tentative sites. [3] Mexico's first six sites were inscribed on the list at the 11th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France in 1987.

  5. Category:Maya sites in Yucatán - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Maya_sites_in...

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more

  6. List of national parks of Mexico - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of...

    Name Year opened Area (km 2) Location Note Arrecife Alacranes National Park: 1994: 3,337: Yucatán: Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park: 1996: 119: Quintana Roo

  7. Riviera Maya - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riviera_Maya

    The Riviera Maya (Spanish pronunciation: [ri'βjeɾa 'maʝa]) is a tourism and resort district south of Cancun, Mexico. It straddles the coastal Federal Highway 307, along the Caribbean coastline of the state of Quintana Roo, located in the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula.

  8. Category:Yucatán - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Yucatán

    Yucatán state — the Mexican state on the eastern Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico. ... Tourist attractions in Yucatán (6 C, 14 P ...

  9. Yucatán Peninsula - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucatán_Peninsula

    The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...