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The name Cancún, Cancum or Cankun first appears on 18th-century maps. [7] In older English-language documents, the city's name is sometimes spelled Cancoon, an attempt to convey the sound of the name. [8] Cancún is derived from the Mayan name kàan kun, composed of kàan 'snake' and the verb kum ~ kun 'to swell, overfill'. [9]
Once the area was originally only called the "Cancun–Tulum corridor", but in 1999 it was renamed as the Riviera Maya, analogous to the Italian and French Riviera, with the instigation of among others, Miguel Ramón Martín Azueta. [1] At the time, he was the municipal president of Solidaridad, Quintana Roo.
Soccer club Atlante F.C. was founded in 1916 in Mexico City and moved to Cancun in 2007 due to poor attendance. [31] The club announced a return to Mexico City in 2020, [ 32 ] concurrently with the relocation of Cafetaleros de Chiapas to Cancún and its rebranding as Cancún F.C. [ 33 ] They play in the Mexican second division Liga de ...
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
Benito Juárez is located in the north of the state with the Caribbean Sea as its eastern border. It borders on the municipalities of Isla Mujeres to the north, Puerto Morelos to the south, and Lázaro Cárdenas to the west.
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.
That plan, called The Cancun Project, gained approval in 1969 and ground was broken in 1970, with the purpose of building a new city from scratch.
Cancun International Airport is across Federal Highway 180 from Cancún Airport railway station, the largest station on the recently established Tren Maya, a 1,500 km intercity rail network. This station has nine platforms located on the opposite side of the runway from the main terminal buildings.