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Playa del Carmen

Playa del Carmen, or just "Playa" as it is also commonly referred to by locals, is a large coastal resort town in on the of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Playa del Carmen Airport.

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, is an airport located in the city of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. There is little activity at the airport, and its runway of just a few hundred meters receives only small and medium-sized planes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mayan Riviera.

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The is composed of the area just south of the tip of the in . It stretches along 120 km of the Mexican Caribbean coastline in the northeastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Playa del Carmen

Latitude
20.6461° or 20° 38′ 46″ north
Longitude
-87.0809° or 87° 4′ 51″ west
Population
305,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
PCM
United Nations Location Code
MX PCM
Open location code
76GJJWW9+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 279948657
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3521342
Wiki­data ID
Q989988
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Playa del Carmen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلايا ديل كارمن”
  • Armenian: “Պլայա դել Կարմեն”
  • Asturian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Basque: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Belarusian: “Пляя дэль Кармэн”
  • Bengali: “প্যালায়া ডেল কামেন”
  • Bulgarian: “Плая дел Кармен”
  • Catalan: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Cebuano: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Central Kurdish: “پلایا دێل کارمێن”
  • Chinese: “卡曼海滩”
  • Chinese: “卡门海滩”
  • Chinese: “普拉亞德爾卡曼”
  • Czech: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Danish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Dutch: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلايا ديل كارمن”
  • Esperanto: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Finnish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • French: “Playa del Carmen”
  • German: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Greek: “Πλάγια ντελ Κάρμεν”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લાયા ​​ડેલ કાર્મેન”
  • Hebrew: “פלאיה דל כרמן”
  • Hindi: “प्लाया डेल कारमेन”
  • Hungarian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Indonesian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Italian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Japanese: “プラヤ・デル・カルメン”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲಾಯಾ ಡೆಲ್ ಕಾರ್ಮೆನ್”
  • Korean: “플라야 델 카르멘”
  • Korean: “플라야델카르멘”
  • Latvian: “Plaja del Karmena”
  • Lithuanian: “Plaja del Karmen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Malay: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Marathi: “प्लाइया देल कारमेन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Norwegian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Polish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Portuguese: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Romanian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Russian: “Плайя-дель-Кармен”
  • Russian: “Плая-дель-Кармен”
  • Serbian: “Плаја дел Кармен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලයා දෙල් කර්මෙන්”
  • Spanish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Swedish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Tamil: “பிளாயா டெல் கார்மென்”
  • Tatar: “Плая-дел-Кармен”
  • Telugu: “ప్లాయా డెల్ కార్మెన్”
  • Thai: “ปลายาเดลการ์เมน”
  • Turkish: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Ukrainian: “Плая-дель-Кармен”
  • Urdu: “پلائیا دیل کارمین”
  • Vietnamese: “Playa del Carmen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Playa del Carmen”
  • “Playa del Carmen”

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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 “Playa del Carmen”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.