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ABOUT CANCUN
The far East of the Peninsula of Yucatán, to the South of the Mexican Republic
is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and is known as the Mayan Coast, given this
pre-Hispanic civilisation's influence all across the area, from Punta Brava to
Punta Allen. The north side of the coast boasts an amazing tourist
infrastructure and impressive development.
The south, on the other hand, is home to many different small picturesque
villages surrounded by unspoilt beaches, where the Gran Arrecife Maya is to be
found, the second largest reef in the world. The south is famous for its
forest, with exotic vegetation and great variety of animal species. It is also
famous for its underground rivers, caves and deep-sea caverns.
The civilisation which originally inhabited this peninsula was the Mayan
civilization, very advanced as regards the sciences of the Earth and skies,
famous for the precision of their calculations and the complexity of their
religious rites. In the post-classical period, from the year 1,000 to
approximately the year 1,500, the peninsula was an important commercial and
religious centre. Tulum was then a fortress on the Caribbean shores. Playa del
Carmen was then known as Xaman-Ha, and what is now Xcaret was known as Puerto
Pole. The most important city was Cobá, with a population of 50,000
inhabitants.
With the arrival of the Spaniards in 1519, the main Mayan cities, such as
Chichen Itza and Uxmal had already been abandoned, what with the wars and
conquests of other peoples, the harsh climate and the dangers of the forest,
together with the frequent threat of hurricanes, which had caused the
civilisation almost to disappear. Xel-Ha went down in history as the first
European settlement. However, during the Colonial period the growth of the
population was not made easy, given the proximity of the open sea and the
pirate attacks. These attacks made it difficult to reach the land, and even
when that obstacle was overcome, the forest posed many more difficulties and
dangers. This is the main reason why the peninsula was unknown for so long.
In 1967 the Mexican Government recognised the importance of the tourist industry
as an active ingredient of the country's economy, and Cancun was one of
the places to become a firm candidate for foreign investment and the
development of a hotel and entertainment infrastructure, given that its natural
beauty was an obvious temptation for any traveller. The first hotels that were
built in the 70s were the Palacio Maya and Club Med, both of which developed a
great reputation.
Cancun is still an important tourist destination today, and up until the
90s many new hotels were built, as well as American-style shopping malls and
all the entertainment facilities it now has to offer.
Cancun is now divided into three areas: Ciudad de Cancun, with a
population of 300,000 and a simple and straightforward infrastructure; the
ecological reserve, with its incredible lakes, forests and mangrove marshland,
and the Zona Hotelera, an island where most of the hotels and shopping malls
are to be found. There are two new projects under development, including a
tourist sea resort called Puerto Cancun and another project known as Malecón
Cancun, covering some 170 acres of land.
Cancun has more than 25,000 hotel rooms to offer, 200 restaurants and
several hundred shops. There are roads leading to the forest, making it easy to
get to in most cases.
Cancun has many different faces which come together to offer the natural
beauty of what is truly a Caribbean paradise, the forest, and the comfort of
five star, great tourism and high category hotels, all in the setting of what
was one of the most advanced and intelligent civilisations in the old world.
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