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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Serge Melki, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,310 residents
- Description: Community in 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″ northLongitude
-87.3173° or 87° 19′ 2″ westPopulation
1,310Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
76GJ9MXM+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 854200484OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3533116Wikidata ID
Q2262536
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Tatar—“Akumal” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Акумал”
- Catalan: “Akumal”
- Cebuano: “Akumal”
- 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 nadar con tortugas”
- Spanish: “Akumal”
- Swedish: “Akumal”
- Tatar: “Акумал”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Akumal”. Photo: Serge Melki, CC BY 2.0.