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Puerto Juárez is a district in the Benito Juárez municipality, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. [1] It is in the north-east of the Yucatán Peninsula , on the shore of the Caribbean Sea , 2 km (1.25 mi) north from the center of Cancún .
The largest municipality by land area is Felipe Carrillo Puerto which spans 12,939.30 km 2 (4,995.89 sq mi), and the smallest is Cozumel with 488.00 km 2 (188.42 sq mi). [2] The newest municipality is Puerto Morelos which was created out of Benito Juárez in 2016.
This was also the year Quintana Roo that was recognized as a state. At the time Benito Juarez was founded, it was part the Isla Mujeres territory and received municipality status one year later in 1975. [4] In 2016, the municipality of Puerto Morelos was split off from Benito Juárez.
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Area (km 2) Location Note Arrecife Alacranes National Park: 1994: 3,337: Yucatán: Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park: 1996: 119: Quintana Roo: Arrecife de Puerto Morelos National Park: 1998: 90: Quintana Roo: Arrecifes de Xcalak National Park: 2000: 179: Quintana Roo: Bahía de Loreto National Park: 1996: 2,065: Baja California Sur: Barranca ...
The theme park was founded in 1984, [3] and is under the management and marketing of the Mexican-owned Experiencias Xcaret Group. [4]The park is centered around the natural inlet and lagoon, which is promoted as one of the main attractions of the park that forms with the flow of the river through rocks mixing salty waters with fresh underground water currents.
One of the first studies on a methodology to define and quantify the metropolitan areas in Mexico was published by El Colegio de México in 1978. In Luis Unikel's book "Urban Development in Mexico: Diagnosis and Future Implications", a metropolitan area was designated as "the territorial area that includes the political and administrative units from a central city, and any contiguous, urban ...
When development of the area as a resort was started on January 23, 1970, Isla Cancún had only three residents, all caretakers of the coconut plantation of Don José de Jesús Lima Gutiérrez, who lived on Isla Mujeres. Some 117 people lived in nearby Puerto Juárez, a fishing village and military base. [14] [self-published source?