Cancun Visit

   Cancun (Mayan: kaan kun "nest of snakes") is a city of international tourism
                     development certified by the World Tourism Organization 2 Located on the
                    northeast coast of Quintana Roo in the east to over 1,700 Hotels.com guest
km from Mexico City.
                    In a few years, had a remarkable transformation since being a fisherman's
                      island urrounded by virgin forest and unknown shores, today is along with
   Acapulco's most renowned Mexican resort in the world. Politically is the
                      head of the municipality of Benito Juarez, Quintana Roo state. The World
                     Tourism Organization (UNWTO), through its foundation UNWTO-Themis
                     awarded the Best of the Best "for excellence and good governance" to the
                     Trust for Tourism Promotion of Cancun on February 3, 2007. Cancun thus
                      becomes a body supported by the Department of Education and Knowledge
                    Management of the WTO.

                                                                      place names
      There are two versions about the origin of the name, according pronunciation maya,
the first version is "nest of snakes or pot" and the second version and less accepted
          is "place of the golden snake", this is because the island of Cancun is a form of "7"
          and the dawn appears golden snake form by sun glare.

shield of cancun.

                                                                                   shield
                 The shield of the municipality of Benito Juárez, who also represents the city of Cancun,
                 was designed by the artist Vital Jesús Carmichael Jiménez chetumaleño (Elio Carmichael)
                  is divided into three parts: The color blue symbolizes the Caribbean Sea, the yellow sand
                 and red rays of the Sun.