Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo

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The Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo is a coastal Mexican municipality on the Caribbean Sea that includes the resort city of Cancún and its famous hotel zone, making it one of the country’s major tourist destinations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
borderedBy Municipality of Isla Mujeres (offshore to the northeast)
Municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo (to the northwest)
Municipality of Solidaridad (to the south, regionally)
climate tropical
contains Cancún
Cancún Hotel Zone
linked to: Cancún

Cancún International Airport influence area
Isla Mujeres (part of municipal territory historically before separation)
linked to: Isla Mujeres
country Mexico
governingBody Ayuntamiento de Benito Juárez
governmentType municipal government
hasEcosystem coastal dunes
coral reef systems offshore
mangroves
hasEnvironmentalRisk coastal erosion
hurricanes
hasInternationalVisitorsFrom Canada
Europe
United States
hasMunicipalSeat Cancún
hasUrbanArea Cancún metropolitan area
linked to: Cancún
isKeyNodeOf Mexican tourism industry
isPartOfTouristRegion Mexican Caribbean
linked to: Insular Caribbean

Riviera Maya and surrounding corridor (broad tourism marketing sense)
linked to: Riviera Maya region
knownFor Cancún hotel zone
being one of Mexico’s main tourist destinations
coral reefs nearby
nightlife and entertainment
white-sand beaches
languageOfficial Spanish
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory State of Quintana Roo
locatedInRegion Yucatán Peninsula
locatedInTourismCorridor Cancún–Tulum corridor (broad regional sense)
locatedOnBodyOfWater Caribbean Sea
majorEconomicActivity construction
services
tourism
namedAfter Benito Juárez
namedAfterOccupation former President of Mexico
partOf Northern Quintana Roo
primaryReligionMajority Roman Catholicism
timeZone Eastern Standard Time (no daylight saving)
tourismType beach tourism
international tourism
resort tourism
transportInfrastructure federal highways connecting to Mérida and Chetumal

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Zona Hotelera partOf Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo
Benito Juárez (Quintana Roo municipality) partOf Municipalities of Quintana Roo
subject linked to: Benito Juárez
linked to: Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo
Municipality of Isla Mujeres borderedBy Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo