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| Page Views: 2,895 Last Visit to Cancún: July, 1996 | Cancun, Mexico by jholley534 - last update: Mar 30, 2005 |
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Cancun sits on the point of the Yucatan Peninsula in Quintana Roo. It is a very popular "spring break" site because of the mass amount of clubs and bars located on the "strip". However, it is an extremely beautiful place with much more to offer than alcohol if your interested. If the archaelogical sites is your thing, Chicken-Itza is located near by which was once considered the most important city of the Mayan Indians. There is also the ruin Talum located right on the beach beside Cancun.
I visited Cancun when I graduated high school so some things may have changed since my visit. Most of the pictures were taken with a horrible camera....so I apologize in advance for the poor quality. |
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Cancuns temperature averages 80'F year-round, changing from time to time and dipping to 65'F in January. It can reach 100'F in May, yet ocean breezes keep it more bearable than the rest of the Yucatan Peninsula. Rainfall is rare, but violent storms called nortes can roll in on any afternoon, their black clouds, high winds and floods of rain followed within an hour by bright sun & blue sky. Hurricane season lasts from July to November.
November and early December are perhaps the best times to go, as there are fewer tourists and prices are low. The busy season is from mid-December to April, when prices are noticeably higher.
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| | HISTORY OF CANCUN Cancun Mexico is located in the state of Quintana Roo which was little more than a forgotten backwater for most of the 19th century. The region was so insignificant in the minds of Mexican authorities that it didn't even have an official name until 1902. In that year, when it was given territory status, it was named after army general Andreas Quintana Roo, although he'd never served in the territory.
In the late 1960s Isla Cancun was a sliver of sand visited only by local fisherfolk and a few adventurers. When the Mexican government decided to develop a resort on the island, the channels separating it from the mainland coast were bridged. Next, a town sprang up (where Ciudad Cancun now stands) to house Isla Cancun's construction workers and their families.
When Cancun opened in 1974, the carefully developed island - commonly referred to as Cancun, Isla Cancun or the Zona Hotelera - was promoted as a tropical paradise. In short order it began attracting tourist from all over. Remarkably, Quintana Roo didn't become a state until that same year. And it likely wouldn't have received statehood even then, except that the government and developers ambitiously planning Cancun agreed that the new resort town would be difficult to promote if it were situated in a region apparently unworthy of statehood. |
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rcsparty Wed Jul 9, 2008 14:07 UTC
just spent a great weekend in NO...happy birthday | Lyndra Mon Jul 9, 2007 07:13 UTC
Great page Jamie :-) | saw50st8 Tue Sep 19, 2006 15:27 UTC
Best cartoon I've seen! Where is it from? | BluBluBlu Sat Oct 15, 2005 14:26 UTC
Excellent photo's and tips Jamie! Blu |
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