Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo, also called the Mexican Caribbean is a state of Mexico that is part of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its shoreline along the Caribbean has grown in just a few decades into a major tourism destination.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Cancún
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Cancún is a popular Caribbean tourist destination on the northeast tip of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, in Quintana Roo, which also is called the Mexican Caribbean.
Chetumal
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Chetumal is the capital of Quintana Roo in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen, or just "Playa" as it is also commonly referred to by locals, is a large coastal resort town in Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.Destinations
Cozumel
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Cozumel is a Caribbean island just off the Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico.
Tulum
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Tulum is on the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico. It is one of the earliest resorts in Mexico, offering a place of worship and solitude for the Mayan kings, clergy and gods in early times.
Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve
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Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve is an enormous natural protected area in the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
Coba
Cobá is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.Puerto Morelos
Puerto Morelos is a town in Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula, about 20 km south of Cancún.Holbox
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Holbox is an island in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the north coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Mahahual
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Mahahual is a city in the municipality of Othón P. Blancothe, state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, a short distance northeast of Belize.
Bacalar
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Bacalar is in Quintana Roo, Mexico. This area, anchored by the stunningly azure blue Lake Bacalar, has a Yucatan small-village feel and is absent of busloads of tourists.
Akumal
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Akumal is a small town between Playa del Carmen and Tulum on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
Mayan Riviera
The Mayan Riviera is comprised of the area just south of the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.Xcalak
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Xcalak is a small sleepy fishing village on the Costa Maya, it is at the southernmost point of the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, near the Belize border.
Punta Allen
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Punta Allen is a small fishing village in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo in the Si'an Ka'an biosphere, with a friendly atmosphere and a good number of places to stay.
Isla Contoy
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Isla Contoy is an island off the northeast coast of the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.
Puerto Aventuras
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Puerto Aventuras is a coastal resort area in Quintana Roo on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
Quintana Roo
- Type: State with 1,860,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Neighbors: Campeche and Yucatán
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude of centre
19.6667° or 19° 40' northLongitude of centre
-88.5° or 88° 30' westPopulation
1,860,000Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)Abbreviation
ROOAbbreviation
Q. RooOpenStreetMap ID
node 305626621OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
3520887Wikidata ID
Q80245Quintana Roo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Amharic: ኩንታና ሮ
- Arabic: Quintana Roo
- Arabic: كينتانا رو
- Arabic: ولاية كوينتانا رو
- Arabic: ولايه كينتانا رو
- Aragonese: Quintana Roo
- Armenian: Կինտանա Ռոո
- Aymara: Quintana Roo Istadu
- Basque: Quintana Roo
- Belarusian: Кінтана-Роа
- Belarusian: Кінтана-Роо
- Belarusian: штат Кінтана-Роа
- Bengali: কিন্তানা রো
- Breton: Quintana Roo
- Bulgarian: Кинтана Ро
- Bulgarian: Кинтана Роо
- Catalan: Estat de Quintana Roo
- Catalan: Quintana Roo
- Cebuano: Estado de Quintana Roo
- Chechen: Кинтана-Роо
- Cheyenne: Quintana Roo
- Chinese: Quintana Roo Chiu
- Chinese: 金塔納羅奥州
- Chinese: 金塔納羅奧州
- Chinese: 金塔纳·罗奥州
- Chinese: 金塔纳罗奥州
- Cornish: Quintana Roo
- Croatian: Quintana Roo
- Czech: Quintana Roo
- Danish: Quintana Roo
- Dutch: Quintana Roo
- English: Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo
- English: State of Quintana Roo
- Esperanto: Kintanaroo
- Esperanto: Quintana Roo
- Estonian: Quintana Roo
- Estonian: Quintana Roo osariik
- Finnish: Quintana Roo
- French: Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo
- French: MX-ROO
- French: Quintana Roo
- French: Quitana Roo
- French: État de Quintana Roo
- Galician: Quintana Roo
- Georgian: კინტანა-როო
- Georgian: კინტანა-როოს შტატი
- German: MX-ROO
- German: Quintana Roo
- Greek: Κιντάνα Ρόο
- Gujarati: ક્વિન્ટાના રુ
- Haitian: Quintana Roo
- Hebrew: קינטנה רו
- Hebrew: קינטנה רואו
- Hindi: क्विंटाना रू
- Hungarian: Quintana Roo
- Icelandic: Quintana Roo
- Ido: Quintana Roo
- Iloko: Quintana Roo
- Indonesian: Quintana Roo
- Interlingua: Quintana Roo
- Irish: Quintana Roo
- Italian: Quintana Roo
- Japanese: キンタナ・ロー州
- Japanese: キンターナ・ロー州
- Kannada: ಕ್ವಿಂಟಾನಾ ರೂ
- Korean: 킨타나로오
- Korean: 킨타나로오주
- Ladino: Quintana Roo
- Lao: Quintana Roo
- Latin: Quintana Roo
- Latin: Quintana Rooa
- Latvian: Kintana Roo
- Lithuanian: Kintana Ro
- Lithuanian: Kintana Roo
- Lithuanian: Kintana Roo valstija
- Macedonian: Кинтана Ро
- Malagasy: Quintana Roo
- Malay: Quintana Roo
- Marathi: किंताना रू
- Marathi: किंताना रो
- Mazanderani: کینتانا رو
- Min Nan Chinese: Quintana Roo Chiu
- Northern Frisian: Quintana Roo (Bundesstoot)
- Northern Frisian: Quintana Roo
- Norwegian: Quintana Roo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo
- Norwegian Bokmål: Quintana Roo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Quintana Roo
- Occitan (post 1500): Quintana Roo
- Ossetian: Кинтанæ-Роо
- Pampanga: Quintana Roo
- Persian: کینتانا رو
- Piemontese: Quintana Roo
- Polish: Quintana Roo
- Portuguese: Estado de Quintana Roo
- Portuguese: Quintana Roo
- Quechua: Quintana Roo suyu
- Romanian: Quintana Roo
- Romansh: Quintana Roo
- Russian: Кинтана-Роо
- Sardinian: Chintana Ruu
- Sardinian: Quintana Roo
- Scots: Quintana Roo
- Serbian: Estado de Quintana Roo
- Serbian: Држава Кинтана Ро
- Serbian: Кинтана Ро
- Serbo-Croatian: Kintana Ro
- Serbo-Croatian: Quintana Roo
- Sinhala: ක්වින්ටනා රූ
- Slovak: Quintana Roo
- Spanish: Estado de Quintana Roo
- Spanish: Quintana Roo
- Swahili: Quintana Roo
- Swedish: Quintana Roo
- Tagalog: Quintana Roo
- Tajik: Иёлати Кинтана Роо
- Tajik: Кинтана-Роо
- Tamil: குயின்டனா ரூ
- Tatar: Кинтана-Роо
- Telugu: క్వింటానా రూ
- Thai: Quintana Roo
- Thai: รัฐกินตานาโร
- Turkish: Quintana Roo
- Ukrainian: Кінтана-Роо
- Urdu: کوینتانا رو
- Uzbek: Kintana-Roo
- Uzbek: Kintana-roo
- Venetian: Quintana Roo
- Vietnamese: Quintana Roo
- Waray (Philippines): Quintana Roo
- Welsh: Quintana Roo
- Western Panjabi: کونٹانا رو
- Wu Chinese: 金塔纳罗奥州
- Yue Chinese: 金塔納羅奧州
- Q.R.
- Q. Roo.
- Quintana
- Territorio de Quintana Roo
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