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Nestled on the eastern coast of the vast mysterious Yucatan Peninsula, Cancun is Mexico's favorite tourist destination. The star jewel of the Mexican Caribbean is studded with luxury hotels, stunning beaches and unfathomably ancient Mayan ruins.

Mexico's most luxurious tourist destination sports a first-class infrastructure for Cancun's stellar hotels. Excellent weather and amenities mean that visitors get the best services possible, not to mention the highest concentration of luxury hotels in the Caribbean with jungles and ruins right next door.

 


Cancun is divided into two parts with each end connected to the mainland by a small bridge. The 23-kilometer long (14-mile) island section is lined with the Caribbean Sea to the front and the emerald green Laguna Nichupte to the back. The southernmost bridge connects to the airport and Highway 307 south into the Mayan Riviera. The northernmost bridge connects the Hotel Zone with downtown Cancun. Downtown has colorful shops, restaurants and smaller hotels catering more to European and national tourism.



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 Cancun Restaurants Fine dining and specialty cuisine in Cancun.
 Cancun Nightlife, Clubs and Bars Night time entertainment in Cancun.
 Cancun Shopping Favorite shopping locations around Cancun.
 Cancun Attractions and Activities There are lots of activities awaiting the Cancun visitor.


Cancun is Mexico's top tourist destination. Located on the tip of the Yucatan peninsula it's beaches are unparalleled. Cancun's beaches offer gleaming white sands and the clear blue-green waters of the Caribbean. A wide range of restaurants, exciting night life, a variety of shopping opportunities and the overall tropical atmosphere draw over two million visitors a year. It's hard to believe that 25 years ago it didn't exist at all.

Cancun beaches
Cancun's beachfront hotels
Cancun has 200+ days of sun a year and the temperature averages 80F (25C). The "hotel zone," which is what most tourists think of as Cancun, is a fourteen mile long, thin island shaped like a "7." To the North is the Caribbean Sea with wide open beaches and strong waves. To the west the shore is buffeted by Isla Mujeres (Isle of Women) causing calmer waters. To the south, between the island and the mainland is the Nichupte Lagoon which is perfect for all sorts of water sports and activities.

Cancun Nightlife
Cancun has lots of fun nightlife
Downtown Cancun (or El Centro) has a much different feel, mainly because it is actually lived in. Cancun City has several hundred thousand residents. It offers markets instead of malls, and street venders and outdoor cafes rather than air-conditioned restaurants. Downtown Cancun has little of the glitz of the hotel zone, but is a fast growing and interesting city to visit in it's own right, with plenty to see and do for those wishing to explore a little more.

Description

Cancun is young city as most of its permanent and temporary inhabitants; it used to be a small sand barrier some thirty years ago, when it began to be planned and developed to become the vacation haven of the 21 st century. Today Cancun is a medium sized coastal city and a thin, long island connected to mainland by two bridges on both ends north and south, featuring world class resorts and hotels, clubs and malls.

It offers something for everyone whether it is an all day fun party beach or an isolated, tranquil island.

 

Here you'll find from ultra chick to funky laidback, from R&B to techno, from tacos and cheeseburgers to main stream fancy hallmarks. All tastes are welcomed and catered in this paradise. No wonder why this is Mexico 's most popular resort.

Cancun's beaches

The beaches stand out as the hottest spot in town, both literally and metaphorically. No one can keep from enjoying safe, swimmable turquoise water and white sand under a 90ºF sun, year round, and you shouldn't miss them. It is time to put on a bikini or your swimming trunks, time for fun under the sun!

Topless bathing is an activity that is quietly accepted in Cancun and many of the surrounding areas along the Mayan Rivera. Total nudity is rare (as well as illegal), especially on the major beaches.

Hotel Zone

Most resorts, hotels and condominiums in Cancun are located in The Hotel Zone, which occupies the island completely. It is the area of Cancun where it all comes together for most visitors. Kukulcan Blvd. is the main and only thoroughfare. On the west side of the island is Laguna Nichupte, a vast lagoon home to hundreds of marinas, water front restaurants, shopping malls, a couple of golf courses, few islands and inlets and some fantastic sunsets. The island's atmosphere gets energized right in the middle of it as its heartbeat, an area known as the “Party Zone” featuring the best nightclubs, bars, restaurants and shopping malls.

Downtown Cancun

Cancun Centro offers an option to all the glitz and hype of the Hotel Zone with some great restaurants, bars and shopping arcades. The atmosphere becomes more familiar as all the people that make this paradise work live here. They are the target market and ambience not only becomes Latin, but prices go down significantly. Your wallet will appreciate very much your visit to downtown as the money it contains will certainly go farther.



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History

Cancún is located in the state of Quintana Roo, where the Itsae indians arrived from the south. These Mayan people learned to survive and coexist with the jungle. We still have some reminders of their extraordinary culture, such as the Tulum fortress, the city of Cobá and Kohunlich, among others. There are ruins of countless sites, but mostly uexplored. It is not an exaggeration to say that you can find traces of their impressive culture in every piece of jungle. Quintana Roo took its name from an Independence patriot, Don Andrés Quintana Roo, writer, poet, born in Mérida, Yucatán which was previously a province and Quintana Roo was part of it. It is now the 31st state of Mexico.

Former President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz entrusted Banco de México back in 1968, to issue a National Tourism Programme. The objective was to contribute to the National Produce. The plan should also generate investment opportunities for the private sector and creation of jobs, reach self-determination and marketing of the national tourism products abroad, as well as obtain technologic autonomy in tourism services among other things.

Based on this criteria, Banco de México created Infratur in 1969, to draw a Tourist Resorts Internal Program. Studies were made to identify the best areas for the execution of the turist infrastructure projects. Cancún and Zihuatanejo were chosen as investment priorities.

In those days, Quintana Roo had merely 40,000 inhabitants, concentrated in Chetumal, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres. National Census did not consider Cancun island an important issue since inhabitants lived there only parts of the year.

During centuries nobody realized the magnificence of the Mexican Caribbean, until Cancun was born, a city that emerged from the jungle and turned into the capital of the international turims in Mexico.

The ocean that tourist cruise ships cross now, once belonged to pirates and the Mayas, that for half a century controlled the coastlines and land in the Mexican Caribbean, until General Bravo in a military action “conquered” the already abandoned Chan Santa Cruz, now called Felipe Carrillo Puerto and turned it into a forced labor camp settlement. This originated the terrible Quintana Roo jungle “Black Legend” .
The land now occupied by thousands of Mexicans who came from different parts of the country in search of better living conditions, once belonged to the gum sap extractors (chicleros) who lived in the middle of the jungle and suffered stressful living conditions, while in the ranches on the coast and the light house keepers took care of the Mexican Caribbean sovereignty.
The Mayas on the east coast of the Yucatán peninsula date back to the arrival of the Chontal Mayas who brought from their original land, Tabasco, the art of navegation. This allowed them the control of the coastline.
They established supporting ports for commercial purposes, such as Cozumel, Xcaret, Xel-Há and from there they moved on to the center of the Peninsula in 918 A.C.
The Mayas were originally familiar with navegation in rivers and the peaceful Gulf of Mexico. In order to be able to cross the Carribean and cover long distances, they changed “cayucos” for larger canoes, capable of heavy loads of merchandise and passengers.
After the discovery of the Yucatán Peninsula and several expeditions to explore this region, the Kings of Stain granted in 1526 the authorization to Adelantado Francisco de Montejo, to conquer these new lands.
Thus, by october 1527, the first spanish ships commanded by Montejo arrived in the now Quintana Roo coasts. This expedition landed only 2 kms. from Xel-Há towards Tulúm, in a place that natives called Zamá.
In the 19 th Century the pirats were still in control of the east coast of the Yucatán Península, taking advantage of the indian rebelions and the region’s abandonment. Jean Lafitte, Molas and Mundaca were among the most famous in those days. The latter built a “hacienda” in Isla Mujeres, where he died.
The actual Mexican presence in the Caribbean starts in the south, through a plan to populate key San Pedro, now Belize territory, which due its distance was a perfect refuge in 1848, for people running away from the War of Castes.
In the same period of time, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres were populated, both had been uninhabited due to the lack of security from pirates and sometime after the same happened to Holbox.
On November 21, 1849 the ranch of San Miguel in Cozumel was erected to town. A year later, on august 1850 the town of Dolores in Isla Mujeres is erected and so the presence of Mexico in the Caribbean coast is ratified from that moment on.



 

Historia

Cancún está en Quintana Roo que fue asiento de los itzaes que llegaron del Sur. Pueblo Maya que aprendió a convivir con la selva. De su grandeza quedan vestigios extraordinarios como la fortaleza de Tulúm, la Ciudad de Cobá y Kohunlich, entre otros. Existen restos de innumerables sitios conocidos, pero inexplorados en su mayor parte. No es exagerado afirmar que en cada pedazo de selva se encuentran huellas de su esplendorosa cultura.
Quintana Roo lleva el nombre del Patricio de la Independencia, Don Andrés Quintana Roo, poeta y escritor, nacido en Mérida, Yucatán de cuya provincia formaba parte el ahora 31 Estado de la República.
El presidente Gustavo Díaz Ordaz se dio tiempo para encargar al Banco de México, en 1968, un Plan Nacional de Turismo.
Ese plan tenía el objetivo de contribuir al crecimiento del Producto Nacional, además, el Plan debía generar oportunidades de inversión para el sector privado, crear empleos, alcanzar la autodeterminación y la comercialización de la oferta turística nacional en el Exterior y lograr la autonomía tecnológica en los servicios turísticos, entre otras cosas.

Con base en esos lineamientos, el Banco de México creó en 1969 el Infratur, para llevar al cabo un Programa Integral de Centros Turísticos. De esa forma, se iniciaron los estudios a identificar las zonas propicias para la ejecución de proyectos de infraestructura turística y Cancún y Zihuatanejo fueron seleccionados como prioridades de inversión.
Por aquellos tiempos Quintana Roo apenas tenía poco más de 40,000 habitantes, concentrados en Chetumal, Cozumel e Isla Mujeres. Los censos de aquella época no le daban importancia a la isla de Cancún, habitada sólo durante algunas temporadas del año.
Durante siglos nadie se percató de lo que hoy se llama el Caribe Mexicano, hasta que apareció Cancún, una ciudad que surgió de la selva y se convirtió en la capital del turismo internacional de México.
El mar que hoy recorren las embarcaciones turísticas fue de piratas; de los mayas que por medio siglo controlaron las costas y tierras del Caribe mexicano, hasta que una acción militar encabezada por el Gral. Bravo "conquistó" a una ya abandonada Chan Santa Cruz (hoy Felipe Carrillo Puerto) y transformó en asentamiento de un campo de trabajos forzados que le generó a Quintana Roo la terrible "Leyenda Negra" de la selva.

Las tierras que hoy ocupan miles de mexicanos que vinieron de diferentes partes del país en busca de mejores condiciones de vida, fueron también de los chicleros, quienes vivían en medio de la selva y sufrían grandes penurias, mientras en las costas los ranchos y los fareros cuidaban la soberanía del Caribe mexicano.
La presencia maya en la costa oriental de la península de Yucatán se remonta a la llegada de los mayas chontales, que trajeron desde el actual estado de Tabasco el arte de la navegación, que les permitió dominar las costas.

Establecieron puertos de apoyo al comercio, entre los que destacaron Cozumel, Xcaret, Xel-Há y desde allí se internaron al centro de la Península en el año 918 después de Cristo.
Los Mayas conocían originalmente la navegación en ríos y en el tranquilo Golfo de México. Para transportarse en el Caribe y cubrir grandes distancias sustituyeron los cayucos por canoas más grandes, capaces de ser cargadas con mucha mercancía y llevar pasajeros.

Después del descubrimiento de la península de Yucatán y de varias expediciones destinadas a explorar esta región, los Reyes de España otorgaron en 1526 la autorización al Adelantado Francisco de Montejo para conquistar estas nuevas tierras.
Así, en octubre de 1527 arribaron a las costas de lo que hoy es Quintana Roo las primeras embarcaciones españolas al mando de Montejo. Esta expedición desembarcó a sólo 2 kilómetros de Xel-Há, rumbo a Tulum, en un sitio que los indígenas llamaban Zamá.
En el siglo XIX los piratas aún controlaban las costas orientales de la Península de Yucatán, aprovechándose de las rebeliones indígenas y del abandono de la región. Entre los más famosos de la época se encuentran Jean Lafitte, Molas y Mundaca, quien construyó una hacienda en Isla Mujeres, en donde murió.
La presencia mexicana en el Caribe en forma efectiva comienza en el sur, por medio de un repoblamiento en el cayo San Pedro, hoy territorio beliceño, que por su distancia fue un refugio perfecto en 1848, para quienes huían de la Guerra de Castas.
En el mismo período se repueblan Cozumel e Isla Mujeres, ambas despobladas a causa de su falta de seguridad frente a los piratas y tiempo después sucede lo mismo con Holbox.
Las repoblaciones toman carácter legal, cuando el 21 de noviembre de 1849 se erige en pueblo el rancho de San Miguel, en Cozumel. Un año después, el 17 de agosto de 1850, se erige el pueblo de Dolores en Isla Mujeres, quedando desde ese momento ratificada en forma permanente la presencia mexicana en la costa del Caribe.


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