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Akumal is a small beachfront tourist resort community in Mexico, 100 km (62 mi) south of Cancún, between the towns of Playa del Carmen and Tulum. It is on Akumal Bay and Half Moon Bay on the site of a former coconut plantation in Tulum Municipality in the state of Quintana Roo, and is part of the Riviera Maya area. The 2010 census showed a ...
Playa del Carmen, known colloquially as Playa, is a resort city located along the Caribbean Sea in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is part of the municipality of Solidaridad . As of 2020, the city's population was just over 300,000 people during 2020, a small yet thriving portion of which are foreign immigrants .
This section connects several major destinations in the Riviera Maya tourism district, including Tulum and Playa del Carmen. The other section of Highway 307 is in the state of Chiapas , one end at Palenque , then going south east looping around the Reserva de la Biósfera Montes Azules, paralleling the Guatemalan border, then coming back west ...
The designation has since expanded up and down the coast, now including the towns of Puerto Morelos, situated to the north of Playa del Carmen, as well as the town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, situated 40 km (25 mi) to the south of Tulum. This larger region is what is currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor.
The municipality has some small but rich continental sites including the ecotourism park of Xcaret.Prior to the creation of the Municipality of Tulum, the municipality was situated between latitudes 20° 45' and 19° 46' north and longitudes 86° 57' and 88° 05' west, and had an area of 4,245.67 square kilometres (1,639.26 sq mi).
Quintana Roo is a state in southeast Mexico established out of the Quintana Roo Territory in 1974 with seven municipalities, which has since grown into eleven municipalities. According to the 2020 Mexican census , it has the twenty-fourth largest population of all states with 1,857,985 inhabitants and is the 19th largest by land area spanning ...
Quintana Roo is the home of the city of Cancún, the islands of Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, and the towns of Bacalar, Playa del Carmen and Akumal, as well as the ancient Maya ruins of Chacchoben, Cobá, Kohunlich, Muyil, Tulum, Xel-Há, San Gervasio and Xcaret. The Sian Ka'an biosphere reserve is also located in the state. The statewide ...
It serves as a spur of Federal Highway 180D (Mérida-Cancún) to Playa del Carmen, creating a direct connection between Yucatán and Playa del Carmen and avoiding detours through Cancún or Tulum. Federal Highway 305D was built and is operated by Consorcio del Mayab, a unit of Empresas ICA which is also the concessionaire for Federal Highway ...