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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 .
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...