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Cancun is a coastal city in Mexico’s easternmost state, Quintana Roo, on the Yucatan Peninsula. Cancun is located on the Yucatan Channel that separates Mexico from the island of Cuba in the Greater Antilles. The Cancun region is sometimes known as the Mexican Caribbean.

Cancun is the municipal seat of the Benito Juarez municipality and a world-renowned tourist resort. The city centre is located on the mainland which connects the Nichupte and Bojorquez lagoons to a narrow “7” shaped island where the modern beachfront hotels are located. The island of Isla Mujeres is located off the coast and is accessible by boat from Puerto Juarez.

Cancun History

Originally known as Ekab (“Black Earth”), what is now the northern district of the state of Quintana Roo was thickly populated by people who spoke the language now known as Maya when the Spanish arrived, according to the conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo. In the years after the Conquest, most of the population died off or left as a result of disease, warfare, piracy, and other famines, leaving only small settlements on Isla Mujeres and Cozumel Island.

The city of Cancun resulted from a 1967 study by Banco de Mexico to determine the feasibility of capturing more dollars and other foreign exchange through tourism development. Although the story goes that Cancun was picked by a computer, it was actually selected after extensive research and exploration by the bank’s researchers. Banco de Mexico obtained a $27 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to install the first infrastructure.

When development was started on Jan. 23, 1970, Isla Cancun had only three residents, caretakers of the coconut plantation of don Jose de Jesus Lima, who lived on Isla Mujeres, and there were only 117 people living in nearby Puerto Juarez, a fishing village and military base.

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Cancun History, Economics, Tourism

Due to the reluctance of investors to bet on an unknown area, the Mexican government had to finance the first nine hotels. The first hotel financed was the Cancun Caribe (now a Hyatt hotel), but the first hotel actually built was the Playa Blanca, which later became a Blue Bay hotel, and is now Temptation Resort. The entire project was master-planned, with the island (soon connected to the mainland by causeways) devoted almost exclusively to tourism facilities, while workers housing and service areas were located on the mainland in what became the city of Cancun.

The city has grown rapidly over the past thirty years to become a city of approximately 600,000 residents, covering the former island and the nearby mainland. Most ,cancunenses, here are from Yucatan and other Mexican states. A growing number are from the rest of America and Europe. The municipal authorities have struggled to provide public services for the constant influx of people, as well as to control squatters and irregular developments, which now occupy an estimated ten to fifteen percent of the mainland area on the fringes of the city.