Tulum Municipality
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Tulum is ane o the ten municipalities that mak up the Mexican state o Quintana Roo. It became ane o the newest municipalities in the kintra when it wis formit on 13 Mairch 2008 as a result o its separation from Solidaridad Municipality.[3]
Tulum is hame tae the Maya airchaeological steids o Tulum, an Cobá.
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Geografie
The municipality o Tulum borders the municipalities o Solidaridad tae the north an Felipe Carrillo Puerto tae the sooth, in the state o Quintana Roo. It borders Chemax Municipality an Valladolid Municipality in the state o Yucatán on the northwast an aw, an the Caribbean Sea on the east.
Orografie an hydrografie
Like maist o the Yucatan Peninsula Tulum is entirely flat wi a gentle slope towards the sea, so frae wast tae east, the aurie niver reaches a heicher altitude than 25 meters abuin sea level. The municipality is five metres abuin sea level on average.[4]
Like the rest o the peninsula's surface the laund haes a limestane base that does no allou the formation o surface water flows such as rivers an streams; the watter instead flows in unnergrund rivers that sometimes rise tae the surface in the cenotes. Lochs an cenotes are the major bouks o watter in the municipality.
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Population
Tulum haes 28,263 inhabitants accordin tae the 2010 census, a figur that haes mair nor doubled in the last five years.[4] Thare is an addeetional 15,000 tae 20,000 fowk livin an wirkin in Tulum as pairt o its floatin population. That nummer rises an falls wi the tourist saison an is no reflectit in the census figurs.[5]
Commonties
The municipality consists o 170 populatit localities, plus a addeetional 224 unpopulatit localities, an includes pairt o a biosphere reserve (Sian Ka'an, which lees maistly in neebourin Felipe Carrillo Puerto Municipality). The lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are:[6]
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