Benito Juárez is one of the eleven municipalities of the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate en ...

Quintana Roo Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...

. Most of its population reside in the municipal seat,

Cancún Cancún ( ), often Cancun in English (without the accent; or ) is a city in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat ...

. It is named after the 19th century

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and statesman

Benito Juárez Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican liberal politician and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. As a Zapotec, he was the first indigenous pre ...

Geography

Benito Juárez is located in the north of the state with the

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as its eastern border. It borders on the municipalities of

Isla Mujeres Isla Mujeres (, Spanish for "Women Island" (formally “Isla de Mujeres”) is an island where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet, about off the Yucatán Peninsula coast in the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is approximately long ...

to the north, Puerto Morelos to the south, and

Lázaro Cárdenas Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Born in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, to a working-class family, Cárdenas joined the Me ...

to the west. The municipality covers an area which is 3.72% of the territory of the state.

Communities

The 2010 census enumerated 295 populated localities and 272 unpopulated localities. The largest are as follows: Benito Juarez QR localidades

Puerto Juárez Puerto Juárez is a district in the Benito Juárez municipality, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is in the north-east of the Yucatán Peninsula, on the shore of the Caribbean Sea, 2 km (1.25 mi) north from the center of Cancún. ...

, the primary location of the original population of the area before the founding of the city of

, was considered a separate location from 1960 until 1990, when it was abolished as such and incorporated as one of Cancún's districts.

History

The

Mayan culture The Maya civilization () of the Mesoamerican people is known by its ancient temples and Glyph, glyphs. Its Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Americas. It is also ...

occupied the territory and they are still subsisting. In Cancún are different types of archeological monuments like "Ruinas de el Rey". At the time the town of Cancún was founded (1902) the majority of its business activity was the production and export gum and "palo de tinte". They transported it to Puerto Morelos for the translation to

Cozumel Cozumel (; yua, Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucat� ...

and from there it was exported to other countries. After World War II gum production dropped. In the 1960s, other commercial activities were started. In the 1960s the "island of Cancún" was only occupied at certain times of the year, however by 1974 the first hotel was opened in what is now known as the Hotel Zone. This was also the year Quintana Roo that was recognized as a state. At the time Benito Juarez was founded, it was part the Isla Mujeres territory and received municipality status one year later in 1975. In 2016, the municipality of Puerto Morelos was split off from Benito Juárez.

Demographics

Economy

The principal businesses in this municipality are hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and tourist transportation. Economic activities: * Primary……………….3.7% (agriculture, hunting, fishing) * Secondary…………….6.0% (manufacturing, construction, electricity) * Tertiary……………….90.3% (trade, tourism)

Local government

Mayors (Municipal Presidents): * María Elena “Mara” Lezama Espinosa (MORENA) 2021-2024 * Clara Emilia Díaz Aguilar (MORENA) April-June 2021 * María Elena “Mara” Lezama Espinosa (MORENA) 2018-2021 * Remberto Estrada Barba (PVEM) 2016-2018 * Paul Michell Carrillo de Cáceres (PRI) 2013-2016 * Julián Javier Ricalde Magaña (PRD) 2011-2013 * Gregorio Sánchez Martínez (PRD) 2008-2010

References

External links

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Official Cancún Website
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