Akumal
Akumal is a small town between Playa del Carmen and Tulum on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. In the heart of the Mayan Riviera, 37 km from Playa del Carmen and one hour south of Cancun, Akumal is one of the best places to visit in the Mexican Caribbean for its great variety of beautiful beaches and tourist services.
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 1,310 residents
- Description: town in Tulum Municipality, State of Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Also known as: “Acumal”
Akumal
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Tulum Municipality, Quintana Roo, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
20.3988° or 20° 23′ 56″ north
Longitude
-87.3173° or 87° 19′ 2″ west
Population
1,310
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
76GJ9MXM+G3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Urdu—“Akumal” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Акумал”
- Catalan: “Akumal”
- Cebuano: “Akumal”
- Chechen: “Акумал (Тулум)”
- Chechen: “Акумал”
- Dutch: “Akumal”
- Finnish: “Akumal”
- French: “Akumal”
- German: “Akumal”
- Italian: “Akumal”
- Japanese: “アクマル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akumal”
- Norwegian: “Akumal”
- Persian: “آکومال”
- Persian: “اکومال”
- Polish: “Akumal”
- Portuguese: “Akumal”
- Russian: “Акумаль”
- Serbian: “Акумал”
- Slovak: “Akumal”
- Spanish: “Akumal”
- Swedish: “Akumal”
- Tatar: “Акумал (Тулум)”
- Tatar: “Акумал”
- Urdu: “اکومل”
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