Cancún is the most populous city in the
Mexican state
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of
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 administrative divisions of Mexico, federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into municipalities of ...
, located in southeast
Mexico
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on the northeast coast of the
Yucatán Peninsula
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. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat of the municipality of
Benito Juárez
Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. A Zapotec peoples, Zapotec, he w ...
. The city is situated on the
Caribbean Sea
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and is one of Mexico's easternmost points. Cancún is located just north of Mexico's Caribbean coast resort area known as the
Riviera Maya.
Etymology and coat of arms
According to early Spanish sources, the island of Cancún was originally known to its
Maya inhabitants as (), meaning either '
promontory
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' or 'point of grass'.
The name ''Cancún'', ''Cancum'' or ''Cankun'' first appears on 18th-century maps. In older English-language documents, the city's name is sometimes spelled ''Cancoon'', an attempt to convey the sound of the name.
''Cancún'' is derived from the Mayan name , composed of 'snake' and the verb ~ 'to swell, overfill'. Two translations have been suggested: the first is 'nest of snakes' and the second, less accepted one is 'place of the golden snake'.
Snake iconography was prevalent at the pre-Columbian site of Nizuc.
The shield of the municipality of Benito Juárez, which represents the city of Cancún, was designed by the
Mexican-American
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artist
Joe Vera.
It is divided into three parts: the color blue symbolizes the Caribbean Sea, the yellow the sand and the red the sun with its rays.
History
In the years after the
Spanish conquest of Yucatán
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, much of the Maya population died or left as a result of
disease
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, warfare, and
famine
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s, leaving only small settlements on
Isla Mujeres and
Cozumel Island.
Cancún is a
planned city
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, created to foster tourism. 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.
Cancún was created as a government project to boost tourism. In 1967 government allocated 2 million dollars fund to be administered by the
Bank of Mexico to determine the feasibility of creating new recreational zones, “preferably where no other viable development alternatives exist." This was entrusted to INFRATUR, a Bank of Mexico agency.

Due to the reluctance of investors to gamble on an unknown area, the Mexican federal government financed the first nine hotels.
The city began as a tourism project in 1974 as an Integrally Planned Center, a pioneer of FONATUR (''Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo'', National Fund for Tourism Development), formerly known as INFRATUR. Since then, it has undergone a comprehensive transformation from being a fisherman's island to being one of the two most well-known Mexican resorts, along with
Acapulco
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. The growth of Cancún outpaced the rest of Quintana Roo during the late 20th cenutury, for example, from 1970 to 1980 the population grew annually on average by 62.3%.
[ In hindsight, the development of Cancún as tourist city performed better on a number of metrics than what Mexican state planners had envisionaged.] Once outside the main tourist areas of the World the growth of Cancún was part of a wider touristification of northern Quintana Roo while in the south and east of the state the timber industry developed more than tourism.[ From places like Cancún the tourism industry then expanded from the 1990s onward into indigenous territories and protected areas in inland sites.][
Most 'Cancunenses' are from Yucatán and other Mexican states. A growing number are from the rest of the ]Americas
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and Europe
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. The municipal authorities have struggled to provide public services for the constant influx of people, as well as limiting squatters and irregular developments, which in 2006 occupied an estimated ten to fifteen percent of the mainland area on the fringes of the city.
In 2023, a record 21 million tourists visited Cancún, topping the original estimate of 20.5 million.
Public safety concerns
In the 21st century, Cancún had largely avoided the violence
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associated with the trade of illegal drugs; however, drugs are sold to tourists in bars and night clubs. Cancún has gradually been reported for being a center of money laundering
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.
The links with Cancún date from the 1990s and early 2000s, when the area was controlled by the Juárez and Gulf
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drug cartels. By 2010, Los Zetas, a group that broke away from the
Gulf Cartel, had taken control of many smuggling routes through the Yucatán, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
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.
There have been a number of violent acts in the city related to drug trafficking. Between 2013 and 2016, there were 76 murders: 31 in 2016, and at least 193 in 2017, the vast majority related to drug trafficking. Most have occurred in the urban nucleus, and there have been various violent episodes with firearms in the so-called "Zona Hotelera". Beginning in 2018 with a high wave of violence, Cancún is above the national average in homicides. In January 2018 alone, there were 33 homicides, triple the number from January 2017.
Sargassum
Starting in 2015, Cancun tourism was significantly impacted by the appearance of large amounts of smelly, unsightly brown ''Sargassum
''Sargassum'' is a genus of brown macroalgae ( seaweed) in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and ...
'' seaweed on its white sand beaches every summer. By 2021, ''Sargassum'' season had become an annual occurrence at many Caribbean beach destinations, including Cancun.
Geography
City layout
Apart from the island tourist zone (part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), also popularly known as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef, is a marine region that stretches over along the coasts of four countries – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras – from Isla Co ...
), the Mexican residential section of the city, the downtown part of which is known as "El Centro", follows a master plan that consists of "supermanzanas" (superblocks), giant trapezoids with a central, open, non-residential area cut in by u-shaped residential streets.
Cancún's mainland or downtown area has diverged from the original plan; development is scattered around the city. The remaining undeveloped beach and lagoon front areas outside the hotel zone are now under varying stages of development, in Punta Sam and Puerto Juarez to the north, continuing along Bonampak and south toward the airport along Boulevard Donaldo Colosio. One development abutting the hotel zone is Puerto Cancún; Malecon Cancún is another large development.
Climate
Cancún has a tropical climate
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, specifically a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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'' Aw''), with little temperature difference between months, but pronounced rainy and dry seasons. The city is hot year-round, and moderated by onshore trade winds, with an annual mean temperature of . Unlike inland areas of the Yucatán Peninsula, sea breezes restrict high temperatures from reaching on most afternoons. Annual rainfall is around , falling on 115 days per year.
The rainy season runs from late August through November, and the dry season runs from November through April. The hurricane season runs from June through November. The hotel zone juts into the Caribbean Sea and is therefore surrounded by ocean keeping daytime temperatures around cooler. Windspeeds are higher than at the airport located some distance inland, which is the official meteorological station for Cancún; averages are shown below.
Thanks to the Yucatán current continually bringing warm water from further south, the sea temperature is always very warm, with lows of in winter and highs of in summer.
Tropical storms and hurricanes
The tropical storm season lasts from May to December, the rainy season extending into January with peak precipitation in October. February to early May tend to be drier with only occasional scattered showers. Cancún is located in one of the main Caribbean hurricane impact areas. Although large hurricanes are rare, they have struck near Cancún in recent years, Hurricane Wilma in 2005 being the largest. Hurricane Gilbert made a devastating direct hit on Cancún in September 1988 and the tourist hotels needed to be rebuilt. In both cases, federal, state and municipal authorities were well prepared to deal with most of the effects on tourists and local residents. Hurricane Dean
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in 2007 also made its mark on the city of Cancún.
Making landfall in 1988, Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense hurricane ever observed in the Atlantic basin. It landed on the Yucatán peninsula after crossing over the island of Cozumel. In the Cancún region, a loss of $87 million (1989 USD
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) due to a decline in tourism was estimated for the months of October, November and December in 1988.
On October 21, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, with strong winds in excess of . The hurricane's eye first passed over the island of Cozumel, and then made an official landfall near Playa del Carmen in the state of Quintana Roo at around 11 p.m. local time on October 21 with winds near . Portions of the island of Cozumel experienced the calm eye of Wilma for several hours with some blue skies and sunshine visible at times. The eye slowly drifted northward, with the center passing just to the west of Cancún, Quintana Roo.
Two years later after Hurricane Wilma, in 2007, Hurricane Dean made landfall as a Category 5 storm in Majahual, to the south of Cancún. Fierce winds at the edge of Dean's impact cone stripped sand off of beaches from Punta Cancún (Camino Real Hotel) to Punta Nizuc (Club Med).
The authorities asked tourism operators to suspend sending tourists to Cancún while Hurricane Dean was approaching, but did ask airlines to send empty planes, which were then used to evacuate tourists already there.
Attractions
Old Airport Control Tower Memorial
Despite being a young city, Cancún has a memorial monument of its foundation on a replica of the old Airport Control Tower that resembles to its own date of foundation. The original control tower was a provisional wooden structure, the work of Mexican architects Agustín and Enrique Landa Verdugo.
The old airport was located on the same part of the city that today corresponds to the Kabah Avenue. The tower is 15 meters tall, has a 45 step staircase and has a base dimension of 5 × 5 meters. The memorial was first built in 2002 with a donation by Aerocaribe, a local airline, but the structure was damaged after Hurricane Wilma in 2005. After pleas by the local people to rebuild the tower memorial, a new version was erected in 2010, which was later abandoned without proper maintenance until Woox Pinturas, a local wood maintenance company, made a donation to restore the structure to its original appearance.
El Ceviche Fountain
The real name of this monument is "Caribbean Fantasy", located in the heart of downtown Cancún, between the Coba and Tulum avenues intersection
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. It is the nerve center of the daily urban traffic of the city. It has witnessed multiple social and political events, undergoing constant repairs and remodeling for years.
Six years after Quintana Roo was recognized as the youngest state in the Mexican Republic and barely a decade after the city of Cancún was born, on October 22 and 23, 1981, the North-South Summit was held at the now defunct Sheraton Hotel. Two abstract pillars made of metal crossbeams gave the structure a stepped pyramidal appearance, with small masts displaying the flags
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of the countries attending the 1981 North-South Summit. The author, Lorraine Pinto, added details representing Quetzalcoatl on the sides, resembling the pyramid of Chichen-Itza, located in Yucatan.
In 1994, the municipal authorities of Cancún decided to demolish the commemorative structure because the city had been the scene of one of the most devastating climatic-environmental phenomena in the history of the Yucatan Peninsula, Hurricane Gilberto. The sculpture was irreversibly affected, leaving only the solid concrete base and the metal skeleton.
Due to its crosswise and bare appearance, the locals began to call it "Insectronic", a device manufactured by the Steren company to kill flies
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and mosquitoes
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. The municipal authorities decided to keep its base and the dynamics of the water fountain.
Once again, Lorraine Pinto was on call to create what locals began to call the Ceviche Fountain or the Ceviche Roundabout.
Mayan archeological sites
There are some small Mayan vestiges of the pre-Columbian
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Maya civilization
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in Cancún. El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) is located in the Hotel Zone. El Meco, a more substantial site, is found on the mainland just outside the city limits on the road north to Punta Sam.
Close by in the Riviera Maya and the Grand Costa Maya, there are sites such as Cobá and Muyil (Riviera) the small Polé (now Xcaret), and Kohunlich, Kinichná, Dzibanché, Ichkabal Oxtankah, Tulum, Noh Kah, Chacchoben, among others, in the south of the state. Chichén Itzá is in the neighboring state of Yucatán
Yucatán, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate municipalities, and its capital city is Mérida.
...
.
Sports
Football club Atlante F.C. was founded in 1916 in Mexico City
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and moved to Cancún in 2007 due to poor attendance in Mexico City. In June 2020, speculation began about a possible move of Atlante F.C. back Mexico City. On June 26, the relocation became official. The same day, the relocation of Cafetaleros de Chiapas to Cancún was announced, with the team renamed Cancún F.C.
Cancún Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional Association football, football club based in Cancún, Quintana Roo. It plays in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level division of Mexican football league system, Mexican football. The club was fou ...
They play in the Liga de Expansión MX, the Mexican second division, at the Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo
The Estadio Olímpico Andrés Quintana Roo is a 18,844 seat stadium in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is the home field of Liga de Expansión MX, Expansión MX’s Cancún F.C., and was formerly the home field of Ascenso MX's Atlante F.C. The ...
. The city is also home to the Pioneros de Cancún of the Liga Premier de México
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, the third tier of Mexican football.
The Tiburones de Cancún (Cancún Sharks) were a professional American football
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team who played in the Fútbol Americano de México (FAM) league until the league's dissolution in 2022.
The city is also home to the baseball team Tigres de Quintana Roo, who play in the Mexican League
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The league has 20 teams organized in two divisions, North and South. Teams play 114 games ...
(LMB).
In October 2023, the WTA Finals ( Women's Tennis Association) were held in Cancún, in a temporary, outdoor, hard court
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stadium in Plaza Quintana Roo
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with a capacity of 4,300. Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina
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criticized the facility, saying that it was unacceptable for high level tennis
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, not ready in time for practice, and there was no time to fix it.[Aryna Sabalenka labels WTA Finals court in Cancún unacceptable for high-level tennis](_blank)
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, 2023-10-31
Since February 2025, the Cancún Country Club Residencial & Golf in Cancún hosts the WTA 125 tennis tournament " Cancún Tennis Open", that takes place on outdoor hardcourt
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s.
Transportation
Cancún is served by the Cancún International Airport with an added main runway that commenced operation as of October 2009. It has many flights to North America, Central America, South America, and Europe. It is located on the northeast of the Yucatán Peninsula serving an average of about fifteen million passengers per year. The airport is located around 20 km (12 mi) from the hotel zone, approximately a 20 minute trip by car. The island of Isla Mujeres is located off the coast and is accessible by ferry from Puerto Juárez and Playa Tortugas in the Hotel Zone. In 2020, the Quintana Roo government implemented a law that all international visitors arriving to the State of Quintana Roo are required to pay a fee called the VisiTAX. Visitors with a Mexican passport are exempted from the tax.
Bus service from Cancun Airport to Downtown Cancun is provided by bus company ADO.
Cancún is also served by five public transportation companies, who are granted concessions by the Quintana Roo Institute of Mobility (Imoveqroo) or the Municipality of Benito Juárez, depending on the type of vehicles operated.
These companies include:
* Autocar S.A. de C.V. (Autocar)
* Transportación Turística y Urbana de Cancún (Turicún)
* Sociedad Cooperativa de Autotransporte del Ejido de Alfredo Vladimir Bonfil (Bonfil)
* Sociedad Cooperativa de Transporte Maya Caribe (Maya Caribe)
* Transporte Terrestre Estatal (TTE)
Together, these companies operate 36 bus routes in Cancun and its surrounding areas. Autocar operates 18 routes, both Maya Caribe and Turican operate 28, and Bonfil operates 20. TTE only operates Microbuses and Minibuses
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known as "combis."
Most bus routes terminate near either Plaza Las Americas, the ADO Bus Terminal, Tulum Avenue, or the Hotel Zone.
In the hotel zone, the main routes are R-1 and R-2, which run up Kukulkan Avenue. Operated by SEA (a joint venture between Turicun, Autocar, and Maya Caribe), services run around every 5 minutes and go between Tulum Avenue and the Westin Resort.
In April 2024, SEA announced it had received 100 new air-conditioned buses, and were running them along the R-1 and R-2 routes. It was also announced that the two routes would be phased out in favor of a new corridor that ran between the Hotel Zone and Kabah Avenue, with other inner-city routes being considered.
In August 2024, it was reported that a subsidiary
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of ADO, which already operates buses in Merida, was interested in operating 184 units in Cancun.
ADO already operates long distance bus services from its Cancun Bus Terminal, with destinations including Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Merida and the Airport.
The Tren Maya, under construction since June 2020, will connect Cancún to Palenque, Chiapas with intermediate stops on the Yucatán peninsula and operations started on December 15, 2023. Passengers can take a free electric shuttle from Cancun Airport to the Tren Maya Station.
Sister cities
* Wichita, Kansas
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, USA – November 25, 1975
* Timișoara
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, Romania – March 5, 2019
* Naperville, Illinois
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, USA – February 5, 2021
See also
* Cancún Underwater Museum
*Cenote
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Notes
References
External links
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