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Yucatán and the South

The Yucatán Peninsula is a region of southeastern , consisting of the Mexican states of , , and . The adjacent states of and are also considered part of the Yucatan region on Wikivoyage.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Cancún and Chichen Itza.

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is a popular Caribbean tourist destination on the northeast tip of 's Yucatán Peninsula, in , which also is called the Mexican Caribbean.

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Chichén Itzá is the largest of the archaeological cities of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula of . It is one of Mexico's most visited tourist destinations.

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A short distance — yet seemingly a world away — from the rowdy, touristy beach resorts of and that make up the of cliché, is the cultural center of southern Mexico, boasting a panoply of excellent museums and attractions, a vibrant street life, and a wealth of historic colonial-era architecture that's second only to on the national scene.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Quintana Roo and Yucatán.

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, also called the Mexican Caribbean, is a state of that is part of the Yucatán Peninsula. Its shoreline along the Caribbean has grown in just a few decades into a major tourism destination.

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is a state in the north western part of the Peninsula, with its coastline facing the Gulf of Mexico. To the east is the state of , home of Cancun and Cozumel; is to the south.

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is a state in southern Mexico. It is a large state with remote archaeological sites deep in the jungle, national parks with sparkling mountain lakes, deep canyons, and spectacular waterfalls.

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is a state of on the Yucatán Peninsula. It is on the western side of the peninsula bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Much of 's territory is filled with various archeological sites, almost all of which are Mayan.

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is a state in southeastern . receives the nickname of the Eden of Mexico, for the exuberance of its flora, the variety of its fauna and its quantity of natural beauties.

Yucatán and the South

Latitude of center
18.845° or 18° 50′ 42″ north
Longitude of center
-89.1256° or 89° 7′ 32″ west
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4869671322
Geo­Names ID
3514210
Wiki­data ID
Q130978
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yucatán and the South” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yucatán-skiereiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Yucatan”
  • Amharic: “ዩካታን ልሳነ ምድር”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة يوكاتان”
  • Arabic: “يوقطان”
  • Armenian: “Յուկատան”
  • Asturian: “Península de Yucatán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yukatan yarımadası”
  • Bashkir: “Юкатан”
  • Basque: “Yucatán penintsula”
  • Bavarian: “Yucatan”
  • Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Юкатан”
  • Belarusian: “Юкатан”
  • Bosnian: “Yucatan”
  • Bosnian: “Yucatán”
  • Breton: “Ledenez Yucatán”
  • Bulgarian: “Юкатан”
  • Burmese: “ယူးကတန်ကျွန်းဆွယ်”
  • Catalan: “península de Yucatán”
  • Catalan: “Península de Yucatán”
  • Catalan: “Península del Yucatán”
  • Cebuano: “Península de Yucatán”
  • Cebuano: “Yucatan Peninsula”
  • Chinese: “尤加坦半岛”
  • Chinese: “尤加屯半岛”
  • Chinese: “尤卡坦半岛”
  • Chinese: “尤卡坦半島”
  • Chinese: “猶加敦半島”
  • Croatian: “Yucatan”
  • Croatian: “Yucatán”
  • Czech: “Yucatan”
  • Czech: “Yucatán”
  • Czech: “Yucatánský poloostrov”
  • Czech: “Yukatánský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Yucatan-halvøen”
  • Danish: “Yucatán-halvøen”
  • Danish: “Yucatán”
  • Danish: “Yucatanhalvøen”
  • Danish: “Yucatánhalvøen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nêmadey Yucatáni”
  • Dutch: “Yucatán-schiereiland”
  • Dutch: “Yucatan”
  • Dutch: “Yucatán”
  • Dutch: “Yucatánschiereiland”
  • Esperanto: “Jukatan-duoninsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Jukatana Duoninsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Jukatano”
  • Estonian: “Yucatani poolsaar”
  • Estonian: “Yucatáni poolsaar”
  • Finnish: “Jukatan”
  • Finnish: “Jukatanin niemimaa”
  • Finnish: “Yucatanin niemimaa”
  • French: “Peninsule du Yucatan”
  • French: “Péninsule du Yucatan”
  • French: “péninsule du Yucatán”
  • French: “Péninsule du Yucatán”
  • Galician: “Península do Iucatán”
  • Georgian: “იუკატანის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Halbinsel Yucatan”
  • German: “Halbinsel Yukatan”
  • German: “Mayab”
  • German: “Yucal Peten”
  • German: “Yucatan (Halbinsel)”
  • German: “Yucatán (Halbinsel)”
  • German: “Yucatán”
  • German: “Yukatan (Halbinsel)”
  • German: “Yukatan”
  • Greek: “Χερσόνησος Γιουκατάν”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yû-khà-thán Pan-tó”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yucatán Pan-tó”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי יוקטן”
  • Hebrew: “חצי-האי יוקטן”
  • Hindi: “युकातान प्रायद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Yucatán-félsziget”
  • Icelandic: “Júkatanskagi”
  • Ido: “Peninsulo Yukatan”
  • Ido: “Yukatan-peninsulo”
  • Ido: “Yukatan”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Yukatan”
  • Interlingua: “Peninsula de Yucatán”
  • Interlingue: “Yucatán”
  • Irish: “leithinis Yucatán”
  • Italian: “Penisola dello Yucatan”
  • Italian: “Penisola dello Yucatán”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Yucatan”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Yucatán”
  • Japanese: “ユカタン半島”
  • Kazakh: “Yukatan Tübegi”
  • Kazakh: “Юкатан түбегі”
  • Kazakh: “Юкатан Түбегі”
  • Kazakh: “يۋكاتان تۇبەگى”
  • Kirghiz: “Юкатан”
  • Korean: “유까딴 반도”
  • Korean: “유까딴반도”
  • Korean: “유카탄반도”
  • Latin: “Paeninsula Yucatanensis”
  • Latvian: “Jukatanas pussala”
  • Lithuanian: “Jukatano pusiasalis”
  • Low German: “Yucatán (Halvinsel)”
  • Low German: “Yucatán”
  • Macedonian: “Јукатан”
  • Malay: “Semenanjung Yucatán”
  • Marathi: “युकातान द्वीपकल्प”
  • Mazanderani: “یوکاتان جزیره‌مونا”
  • Mazanderani: “یوکاتان”
  • Mingrelian: “იუკატანიშ ჩქონი”
  • Mongolian: “Юкатан”
  • Mongolian: “Юкатаны хойг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yucatán (Hualeweilun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yucatán”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatán-halvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatan-halvøyen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatán-halvøyen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatán”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatanhalvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatánhalvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatanhalvøyen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yucatánhalvøyen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yukatanhalvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yucatán-halvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yucatanhalvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yucatánhalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Yucatán”
  • Norwegian: “Yucatánhalvøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peninsula de Yucatan”
  • Ossetian: “Юкатан”
  • Persian: “شبه جزیره یوکاتان”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره یوکاتان”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیرهٔ یوکاتان”
  • Polish: “Jukatan”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Jukatan”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Iucatã”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Iucatão”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Yucatan”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Yucatán”
  • Portuguese: “Península do Iucatã”
  • Portuguese: “Península do Iucatão”
  • Portuguese: “Península do Yucatán”
  • Portuguese: “Península Yucatán”
  • Quechua: “Yukatan yaqa wat’a”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Yucatan”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Yucatán”
  • Russian: “Юкатан”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Yucatán”
  • Scots: “Yucatán Peninsula”
  • Serbian: “Jukatan”
  • Serbian: “Yucatán”
  • Serbian: “Јукатан”
  • Serbian: “Полуострво Јукатан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jukatan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yucatan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yucatán”
  • Slovak: “Yucatán”
  • Slovak: “Yucatánsky polostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Jukatan”
  • Slovenian: “polotok Jukatan”
  • Spanish: “península de Yucatán”
  • Spanish: “Península de Yucatán”
  • Spanish: “península del Yucatán”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Yucatan”
  • Swedish: “Yucatán halvön”
  • Swedish: “Yucatan Peninsula”
  • Swedish: “Yucatan”
  • Swedish: “Yucatán”
  • Swedish: “Yucatanhalvön”
  • Swedish: “Yucatánhalvön”
  • Swedish: “Yukatan”
  • Tamil: “யுகடான் தீபகற்பம்”
  • Tatar: “Юкатан”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรยูกาตัน”
  • Turkish: “Yucatan Yarımadası”
  • Turkish: “Yucatán Yarımadası”
  • Turkish: “Yukatan Yarımadası”
  • Ukrainian: “Півострів Юкатан”
  • Ukrainian: “Юкатан (півострів)”
  • Ukrainian: “Юкатан”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما یوکاتان”
  • Urdu: “یوکاتان”
  • Uzbek: “Yukatan”
  • Venetian: “penìzoła del Yucatán”
  • Vietnamese: “bán đảo Yucatan”
  • Vietnamese: “bán đảo Yucatán”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Yucatán”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Yucatán”
  • Welsh: “Penrhyn Yucatan”
  • Welsh: “Penrhyn Yucatán”
  • Welsh: “Yucatán”
  • Western Frisian: “Jûkatan (skiereilân)”
  • Western Frisian: “Jûkatan”
  • Wu Chinese: “尤卡坦半岛”
  • Yakut: “Үкатан”
  • Yue Chinese: “尤卡坦半島”
  • “Tlālyacatl Yucatán”
  • “Tlālyacatl Yucatān”

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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 “Yucatán and the South”. Photo: Anicalek, CC BY-SA 3.0.