Cancún is a coastal city in Mexico's easternmost state, Quintana Roo. It is the municipal seat of Benito Juárez municipality and a world renowned tourist resort with modern beachfront hotels surrounded by the Bahía de Mujeres (Bay of Women), the Caribbean Sea, and the Nichupte and Bojorquez lagoons. The mainland downtown commercial section (Cancún City), connected to the island by two bridges, has broad avenues lined with whitewashed shops, restaurants, and hotels.

History

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In the early 1950s, Cancún was an almost insignificant island just off the Caribbean Sea coast of the Yucatán peninsula, home to three caretakers of a coconut plantation and small Pre-Columbian ruins of the Maya civilization. The government of Mexico decided to develop a tourist resort on Cancún, which was originally financed by a USD $27 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank. A causeway was built to link Cancún to the mainland, and an international airport was built, along with what was at first a model city for workers, complete with housing, schools and medical facilities. On the opposite side of the island from the Caribbean Sea is the Nichupte Lagoon, which is used for boat and snorkelling tours of the area.

Although many international publications now spell Cancun as Cancún, in the area itself it is usually Cancún in Spanish and Cancun in English. This is probably a result of the fact that English-language type faces available in the early days of Cancún did not have accented characters, or the operators did not know how to access them because the keyboard codes were different from the ones they were accustomed to using.

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Writing my history essay :D I've never been so excited for a history project!! I get to write about my trip to cancun with daddy in 2003(:(:
Meggerkinz (Megan Painter) Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:44:59 -0000
Writing my history essay :D I've never been so excited for a history project!! I get to write about my trip to cancun with daddy in 2003(:(:
El primer vuelo nudista, realizado en 2003, transportó a 87 pasajeros de Miami, Florida a Cancún.
tulio187 (tulio martinez) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:09:32 -0000
El primer vuelo nudista, realizado en 2003, transportó a 87 pasajeros de Miami, Florida a Cancún.
@snoozenstein speaking of Flash, there's a lot of bare skin on display--in public!--in the 2003 box office hit, The Real Cancun.
drinky (Josh F.) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:08 -0000
@snoozenstein speaking of Flash, there's a lot of bare skin on display--in public!--in the 2003 box office hit, The Real Cancun.

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