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Tulum Beach
Tulum · Mexico
The short version, from the cited sources
The beach at Tulum runs beneath the only major Maya city built directly on the Caribbean: El Castillo and the Temple of the Frescoes stand on a low cliff above white sand and turquoise water. The walled port town traded across the Yucatan for centuries before contact, and its clifftop setting now defines one of Mexico's most photographed coastlines. Seasonal sargassum seaweed arrivals and heavy visitation are the modern realities of the site.
- Country
- Mexico (MX)
- Region
- North America
- Sand
- White
- Water
- Warm turquoise caribbean water
- Administrative area
- Tulum
- Timezone
- America/Cancun
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2018-01-30
Names in the record
Tulum Beach
- Tulum beach
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
- Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds
Source position
20.20772, -87.43063
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Direct provenance
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Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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