Categorieën: Alle - beaches - education - tourism - pollution

door Silvia Garcia 4 jaren geleden

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Cancun

Cancun, once a modest fishing village, has transformed into a bustling resort city attracting over 7 million visitors annually and housing nearly 1 million residents. This rapid growth has led to extensive development on previously cleared mangrove forests and sand dunes, posing potential environmental hazards, as evidenced by a recent hotel explosion likely caused by gas build-up from decaying mangroves.

Cancun

Cancun

Flora and Fauna

In Cancún you can find lots of different kind of plants and animals. Even though there are few animals in the city some of them still survive and co-habitat with people. For example possums, crocodiles, iguanas, tucanes, etc. You can find some of them at parque Kabah



Tucan
Cocodiles
Iguanas
Possums

Shopping

Las Américas
Puerto Cancún
La isla

Main parks

Ventura Park
Xcaret

Pollution

Just over three weeks ago 

five Canadians died and 20 other tourists were injured


 when 

their Cancún hotel exploded

. Investigations are not complete, but it is likely that it followed a build-up of gases from the rotting mangrove forest buried below the hotel. If so, most of the booming holiday city where the climate talks are taking place is in danger, having been built on hastily cleared mangrove forest and sand dunes.

But the biggest explosion in Cancún has been the city itself. New figures from the Mexican government show that the fastest-growing major resort in the world now gets more than 7 million visitors a year and has possibly 1 million permanent inhabitants. Yet in 1974 when the World Bank kick-started, Cancún it was a collection of huts and a small fishing village. It now has 80,000 hotel beds and more than 500 major hotels and resorts, including the Moon Palace hotel and the Cancúnmesse, where 

UN talks to agree action on climate change are under way


Taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/dec/09/cancun-mangrove-paradise-megasprawl on January 19, 2020


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Education

Most expensive schools
IAS

I have met lots of teachers and students from this school and everybody seems very happy to be part of it. The level is excellent.

VKS

I have not heard a lot about this school but it seems quite ok

MAC

It is one of the newest schools and its also one of the most fancy ones. I have not met any student from that school.


Living here

Ask the real people

Tourist

Public Beaches

Langusta

My favorite beach

Delfines

The most beatiuful beach

Tortugas

The first Public beach K3 Hotel Zone

History

Quintana Roo

Part of the so-called Mundo Maya, Quintana Roo is one of the best tourist states across the country. Its Riviera is known worldwide for its idyllic landscapes, activities of all kinds, cuisine of great proportions and its incomparable beauty of Mayan monuments. Quintana Roo has options for all kinds of travelers, from those who expect the ultimate in luxury to those who prefer the simplest places in contact with nature.


Taken from: https://www.visitmexico.com/en/main-destinations/quintana-roo on January 19 2020

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