Tulum
Tulum is on the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico. It is one of the earliest resorts in Mexico, offering a place of worship and solitude for the Mayan kings, clergy and gods in early times.
Photo: Popo le Chien, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: protected area in Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Categories: archaeological site, tourism and historic site
- Location: Quintana Roo, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
Localities in the Area
Tulum
Town
Tulum is the largest community in the municipality of Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Tulum is situated 3½ km west of Tulum. Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tulum
Latitude
20.2147° or 20° 12' 53" northLongitude
-87.4289° or 87° 25' 44" westElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open Location Code
76GJ6H7C+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 27140793GeoNames ID
3515039Also Known As
- Arabic: تولوم (مدينة أثرية)
- Arabic: تولوم
- Armenian: Թուլում (մայաներ)
- Armenian: Թուլում
- Breton: Tulum
- Bulgarian: Тулум
- Catalan: Tulum
- Chinese: 图卢姆
- Chinese: 圖隆
- Danish: Tulum
- Dutch: Tulum
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: تولوم
- English: Maya Ruins of Tulum
- Finnish: Tulum
- French: Tulum
- Georgian: ტულუმი
- German: Tulum
- German: Tulúm
- Hebrew: טולום
- Ido: Tulum
- Italian: Tulum
- Japanese: トゥルム遺跡
- Lithuanian: Tulumas
- Macedonian: Тулум
- Norwegian: Tulum
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tulum
- Persian: تولام
- Persian: تولوم
- Polish: Tulum
- Portuguese: Tulum
- Romanian: Tulum
- Russian: Тулум
- Serbo-Croatian: Tulum
- Spanish: Ruinas de Tulum
- Spanish: Tulum
- Swedish: Tulum
- Ukrainian: Тулум
- Tuloom
- Tulún
- Zona Arqueológica de Tulum
Other Places Named Tulum
- Tulum MunicipalityQuintana Roo, Mexico
- TulumTown in Quintana Roo, Mexico
- TouloumTown in Cameroon
- TulumVillage in Turkey
- TulumLocality in Yucatán, Mexico
- Tooloom National ParkPark in New South Wales, Australia
- TulumLocality in Papua New Guinea
In the Area
Localities
- TulsayabHamlet, 9 km northeast
- Pino SuárezVillage, 21 km southwest
- Macario GómezVillage, 22 km northwest
- Akumal BayLocality, 23 km northeast
Landmarks
- El CastilloRuins
- OratoryRuins
- Temple of the beganRuins
- Temple of the beganRuins
Popular Destinations in Quintana Roo
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