Cancun, Quintana Roo

Cancun, Quintana Roo

It has a metropolitan area of ​​more than 676 000 inhabitants (population and housing census 2010) Its geographical coordinatesare 21 ° 09'38 "N 86 ° 50'51" W, and its altitude ranges from 1 to 8 [m], due to a slope that increases from east to west, parallel to thecity. Located at a distance of about 370km from state capital, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, 70 km from Playa del Carmen and bordered to the east by the Caribbean Sea, north with the municipality of Isla Mujeres, on the west by the municipality ofLázaro Cárdenas , and south by the municipality of Solidaridad. The extent of Benito Juarez is of 1,664 km ² and has 22 km of coastline.
The Nichupte Lagoon.
Cancun is located northeast of the Yucatan Peninsula, and along the coast you can clearly see Isla Mujeres, positioned east, 7 miles away in the so-called Bahia de Mujeres, an area that cross several ships and boats that transport all day by the inhabitants of the islandto the mainland.