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Sistema Sac Actun (Yucatec Maya: sak aktun, lit. 'white cave', Spanish: sistema, lit. 'system') is an underwater cave system situated along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula with passages to the north and west of the city of Tulum. Discovery of a connection to Sistema Dos Ojos in 2018 made it the longest known underwater cave system.
an untitled sculpture by Raúl Ayala Arellano, installed in Akumal in January 1975 [129] at least 25 replicas or near-replicas of the aforementioned Ayala Arellano sculpture, including one inaugurated on 16 November 1980 by the 58th President of Mexico, José López Portillo, in Merida [130] Nacimiento de la raza mestiza (lit.
Cliffs of Akutan Island Hot springs bay. Akutan is an Aleut name reported by Capt. Pyotr Krenitsyn and Mikhail Levashev in 1768, and spelled Acootan by James Cook in 1778. This name may be from the Aleut word "hakuta" which, according to R. H. Geoghegan, means "I made a mistake."
Akumal is a small beachfront tourist resort community in Mexico, 100 km (62 mi) south of Cancún, between the towns of Playa del Carmen and Tulum. It is on Akumal Bay and Half Moon Bay on the site of a former coconut plantation in Tulum Municipality in the state of Quintana Roo , and is part of the Riviera Maya area.
With the cessation of amphibious airplane service to Akutan on Akutan Island, the Akutan Seaplane Base closed in 2012. It was replaced by a new $75.5m land-based airstrip six miles (9.7 km) across the water on Akun Island, named Akutan Airport. [3]
Hotel Club Akumal Caribe is a resort located along the shore of Akumal Bay (62 miles south of Cancún), in the Caribbean tourism district referred to as the Riviera Maya in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The resort is still owned, at least in large part, by the Pablo Bush family who founded Akumal itself, a diving town established in the 1950s.
Sistema Ox Bel Ha (Spanish: sistema, lit. 'system', Yucatec Maya: ox bel ha, lit. 'Three Paths of Water'; short Ox Bel Ha) is a cave system in Quintana Roo, Mexico.It is the longest explored underwater cave in the world [2] and ranks second including dry caves.
Akutan (/ ˈ æ k uː t æ n / AK-oo-tan, Aleut: Achan-ingiiga [5]) is a city on Akutan Island in the Aleutians East Borough of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, United States.The population was 1,589 at the 2020 census, up from 1,027 in 2010, [6] making it the 4th fastest-growing city of the decade in Alaska.