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Cancún (/ k æ n ˈ k uː n / kan-KOON, US also / k ɑː n ˈ k uː n / kahn-KOON, [4] Spanish: ⓘ), often spelled Cancun in English (without the accent), is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Tulum, Riviera Maya, Mexico. 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.
The Cancún Underwater Museum (Spanish: Museo Subacuático de Arte, known as MUSA) is a non-profit organization based in Cancún, Mexico devoted to the art of conservation. The museum has a total of 500 sculptures, by a series of international and local sculptors, [ 1 ] with three different galleries submerged between three and six meters (9.8 ...
El Rey is a Mayan site on the island of Cancun, Mexico, with 47 structures dating from the classical and post-classical periods. The name El Rey comes from a sculpture of a monarch found at the site, which was a coastal port and a center of trade and salt extraction.
Quintana Roo is a state in eastern Mexico, bordering Belize and the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is Chetumal, and it is known for its Maya ruins, islands, resorts and biosphere reserve.
In 1972, Mexico enacted the Ley Federal Sobre Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicas, Artísticas e Históricas (Federal Law over Monuments and Archeological, Artistic and Historic Sites) that put all the nation's pre-Columbian monuments, including those at Chichen Itza, under federal ownership. [75]
Coba is a large archaeological site on the Yucatán Peninsula, with a network of stone causeways, pyramids, and stelae. It was a powerful city state from the Late Preclassic to the Postclassic period, and had contacts with other Maya and Teotihuacan cultures.
The beaches and nightlife of Cancun make it a popular tourist destination "The Castle" of Chichen Itza, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, Yucatán View on the Copper Canyon (barranca del cobre) in Chihuahua, Mexico Bioparque Estrella, a park and zoo in the State of Mexico Los Pinos, now a cultural space, Mexico City