IS ISLA MUJERES A LIKEABLE ADVENTURE?

Would you like to…

·        Be on a Caribbean Island

·       Walk down on cobblestoned streets

·        Eat delicious food

·        Swim among colorful tropical fish

·        Beachcomb on some of the world most beautiful beaches

 Located just 8 miles across the bay from Cancun , it is a five mile long by half a mile width gem, a place you have always been looking for paradise.

 Isla Mujeres, with more than 13,500 inhabitants, is mapped at latitutde North 21°11´50” and longitude West 86°42´50”.

 Its terrain is flat-lands with sandy beaches, and the climate has an average 80° F. Temp. with 60% humidity all year round.

 This gem, Isla Mujeres, is a fishing village and though now discovered by tourists, it has maintained its quaintness making the island a perfect destination for an ideal vacation.

 There are comfortable hotel accommodation of all price ranges, fine restaurants, sidewalk cafes, a bank , money exchange houses, grocery stores, markets, souvenir shops, day cruises for fishing, diving or just the ride, moped & bicycle rentals, dive shops, bakeries and pharmacies. Also for the late-nighters, there are disco-bars for dancing and nightlife.

 Avenue Rueda Medina, with two lanes is the widest road on the island and it leads south to El Garrafon National Park, its beach areas, the Mayan Temple “Ixchel”  (which was partly destroyed by hurricane Gilbert in September 1988), and the lighthouse.

The Mexican Government and its water department (CAPA) with the help of island divers, installed a sea piping system under the sea , the first ever in the world. In 1988, by order of the state government , CAPA replaced the old 6” piping with an 8” one, thus supplying a sufficient amount of clean drinking water to the island. Also a drainage system and sewage plant have allowed the waters around Isla Mujeres to remain free of contamination.

How we got our name.

In the State of Quintana Roo, almost no Mayan names are now in existence due to the fact that the Spanish renamed the towns as they conquered them.

 The book “Yucatan Before and After the Conquest” , written in 1566 by Friar Diego de Landa, explains it like this: “During Lent of 1517 Francisco Hernandez de Cordova sailed from Cuba with three ships to procure slaves for the miens…(others say he sialed to discover new lands). He landed on Isla de las Mujeres, to which he gave this name because of the idols he found there of the goddesses of the country, “Ixchel” and her daughters and daughter-in-law “Ixchebeliax”, “Ixhuine” , “Ixhuineta”, onlu dressed from the girdle down, and having the breast uncovered after the manner of the Indians. Thebuilding was of stone, such as to astonish them, and they found certain objects of gold of which they took.