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history of Cancun has been very short, for 30th
years did not have nothing else in this desert island
that virgin beaches. Mexican government and FONATUR
- the trust dedicated to the tourist promotion of Mexico
glided yet details the creation of a tourist city in
this narrow sand strip, that of a side is shown to the
Caribbean Sea and from the other to the Nichupté
Lagoon.
The 80 workers who initiated the project were the first
inhabitants of the place. Of in ahead Cancun
he has not stopped his process of growth there. This
he is megaproyecto tourist carefully designed, whose
results are seen at first: attractive the main one is
the white sand beaches smooth, the waters turquesa color
and the tropical climate. Combined to this, Cancún
it is located to only a few kilometers of important
archaeological zones that they comprise of the Mayan
World.
The
urbanization of the city and the hotel zone began in
the year of 1970 in two phases: first, practically finished,
that it includes the city and the hotel zone to where
is the Sheraton Hotel.
The second phase consists of the construction of hotels
and residential areas according to the necessities of
the city until Nizuc End, and includes the projects
of Port Cancún and Maleco'n Cancún (San
Buenaventura). Nowadays, Cancun is a reality
that lodges to the main multinational chains of hotels,
where work hundreds of restaurants and tourist services
of optimal quality are lent.
This tourist pole offers an ample range of activities
to maintain occupied its visitors, but for whom they
count with time sufficient, this one is a good place
to initiate an adventure and to explore its environs.
In the neighborhoods of Cancun there is tropical
islands like Cozumel and Island Women; the ecological
enclosures of Holbox and Contoy; archaeological ruins
like Tulum, Cobá and Chichén Itza; attractive
natural like the tropical forest with which one just
by runs into to cross a pair of kilometers; and submarine
corners of great beauty that to discover when it comes
to know beaches like Xcaret or Xel-Há.
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