Tulum Municipality
Tulum | |
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Municipality | |
![]() Location o Tulum Municipality in Quintana Roo | |
Coordinates: 20°12′43″N 87°27′57″W / 20.21194°N 87.46583°W | |
Kintra | ![]() |
State | ![]() |
Municipal Seat | Tulum |
Govrenment | |
• Municipal Preses[1] | Marciano Dzul Caamal |
Area | |
• Laund | 2040 km2 (790 sq mi) |
Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
Population (2010) | |
• Municipality | 28,263 |
• Urban | 18,233 |
• Demonym | Tulumense |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
INEGI Code | 009 |
Major Airport | Cancún Internaitional Airport |
IATA Code | CUN |
ICAO Code | MMUN |
Website | Offeecial Steid |
Municipalities o Quintana Roo |
Tulum is ane o the ten municipalities that mak up the Mexican state o Quintana Roo. It became ane o the newest municipalities in the kintra when it wis formit on 13 Mairch 2008 as a result o its separation from Solidaridad Municipality.[3]
Tulum is hame tae the Maya airchaeological steids o Tulum, an Cobá.
Geografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]The municipality o Tulum borders the municipalities o Solidaridad tae the north an Felipe Carrillo Puerto tae the sooth, in the state o Quintana Roo. It borders Chemax Municipality an Valladolid Municipality in the state o Yucatán on the northwast an aw, an the Caribbean Sea on the east.
Orografie an hydrografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]Like maist o the Yucatan Peninsula Tulum is entirely flat wi a gentle slope towards the sea, so frae wast tae east, the aurie niver reaches a heicher altitude than 25 meters abuin sea level. The municipality is five metres abuin sea level on average.[4]
Like the rest o the peninsula's surface the laund haes a limestane base that does no allou the formation o surface water flows such as rivers an streams; the watter instead flows in unnergrund rivers that sometimes rise tae the surface in the cenotes. Lochs an cenotes are the major bouks o watter in the municipality.
Population
[eedit | eedit soorce]Tulum haes 28,263 inhabitants accordin tae the 2010 census, a figur that haes mair nor doubled in the last five years.[4] Thare is an addeetional 15,000 tae 20,000 fowk livin an wirkin in Tulum as pairt o its floatin population. That nummer rises an falls wi the tourist saison an is no reflectit in the census figurs.[5]
Commonties
[eedit | eedit soorce]The municipality consists o 170 populatit localities, plus a addeetional 224 unpopulatit localities, an includes pairt o a biosphere reserve (Sian Ka'an, which lees maistly in neebourin Felipe Carrillo Puerto Municipality). The lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are:[6]
Name | 2010 Census Population |
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Tulum | 18,233 |
Ciudad Chemuyil | 1,377 |
Akumal | 1,310 |
Cobá | 1,278 |
Chanchen Primero | 875 |
Francisco Uh May | 655 |
San Juan | 599 |
Macario Gómez | 510 |
Chanchén Palmar | 469 |
Javier Rojo Gómez (Punta Allen) | 469 |
Sahcab Mucuy | 456 |
Manuel Antonio Ay | 407 |
Hondzonot | 368 |
Yaxché | 335 |
Total Municipality | 28,263 |
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Municipio de Tulum". Retrieved 14 November 2009.
- ↑ "Discuten por nuevo municipio". Archived frae the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 5 November 2009.
- ↑ Javier Chávez. "Tulum se convierte en el noveno municipio de Quintana Roo". Retrieved 13 Mairch 2008. [deid airtin]
- ↑ a b http://www.municipios.mx/Quintana-Roo/Municipio-de-Tulum-en-Quintana-Roo.html Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ 2010 census tables: INEGI Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine