Cancún
Cancun is a city in southeastern Mexico, located on the northeast coast of theYucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a major world-renowned tourist destination,[2] as well as being the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, and is one of the easternmost points in Mexico. Cancún is located just north of Mexico's Caribbean coast resort band known as theRiviera Maya.
Place names and shield[edit]
Place name
There are two possible translations of Cancún, based on the Mayan pronunciation kaan kun. The first translation is "nest of snakes." The second version and less accepted is "place of the gold snake."[3]
Shield
The shield of the municipality of Benito Juárez, who represents the city of Cancun, was designed by the artist vital Jesús Carmichael Jiménez (Elio Carmichael). It is divided into three parts: The color blue symbolizes the Caribbean Sea, the yellow the sand and the red the sun with its rays.
History[edit]
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1990 | 167,730 | — |
| 1995 | 297,183 | +77.2% |
| 2000 | 397,191 | +33.7% |
| 2005 | 526,701 | +32.6% |
| 2010 | 628,306 | +19.3% |
| 2014 | 722,800 | +15.0% |
| sources:[4] | ||
As documented in the earliest colonial sources, the island of Cancún was originally known to its Maya inhabitants as Nizuc (Yucatec Maya [niʔ suʔuk]) meaning either "promontory" or "point of grass".[5] In the years after the Conquest, much of the population died off or left as a result of disease, warfare, piracy, and famines, leaving only small settlements on Isla Mujeres and Cozumel Island.
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