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ADO already operates long distance bus services from its Cancun Bus Terminal, with destinations including Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Merida and the Airport. [ 58 ] [ 53 ] [ 61 ] The Tren Maya , under construction since June 2020, will connect Cancún to Palenque, Chiapas with intermediate stops on the Yucatán peninsula [ 62 ] and operations ...
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 ...
Free-air gravity anomaly over the Chicxulub structure (coastline and state boundaries shown as black lines). The Chicxulub crater (Spanish: [t͡ʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán (Spanish: Canal de Yucatán) is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.It connects the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico.
The Conexión Intermodal Tren Maya is a future set of 3 electric shuttle bus connections in Cancun, Puerto Morelos, and Playa del Carmen that will link to the Tren Maya. Two lines will connect Puerto Morelos and Playa del Carmen stations with different tourist attractions of the region, while a third will connect the Cancún Airport railway ...
The henequen grown in the Yucatan was used around the world for rope and twine, and became known as sisal rope, named after the seaside town of Sisal, from where the rope was shipped. Today Sisal is a sleepy fishing village, being rediscovered by locals and visitors as a beach location for vacation homes.
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 ...