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Mexico City, Nayarit, Baja California Sur, Quintana Roo and Oaxaca are issued an "exercised increased caution when traveling to" warning. Baja California Sur is home to Cabo San Lucas, San Jose ...
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 .
Puerto Morelos Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in the town and port of Puerto Morelos, on the Riviera Maya in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.The current lighthouse is the third in a succession of lights that have operated at the site on the seafront, close to the main pier. [1]
Quintana Roo, [b] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, [c] is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 municipalities , and its capital city is Chetumal .
Cancún (/ k æ n ˈ k uː n / kan-KOON, US also / k ɑː n ˈ k uː n / kahn-KOON, [4] Spanish: ⓘ) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico [5] and the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez.
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.
El Meco, anciently known as Beel'maan, is an archaeological Maya site located on the Caribbean coast of northern Quintana Roo, Mexico, eight kilometers north of Cancún.El Meco was a major Pre-Columbian Maya port city and maritime trade site on the East Coast of Quintana Roo during the Postclassic period of the Maya civilization until the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
Puerto Morelos is one of the eleven municipalities of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula. It was formed in 2016 from the localities of Puerto Morelos, Leona Vicario and Central Vallarta previously belonging to the municipality of Benito Juárez. In the 2010 census, these three localities recorded a total of 15,725 ...