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Cozumel (Mayan: Island of the Swallows)
(Kùutsmil in Modern Maya) is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's
Yucatan Peninsula, opposite the Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. It is one of
the nine municipalities (municipios) of the state of Quintana Roo. Cozumel is a popular tourist
destination renowned for its scuba diving and snorkeling. The main town on the island is San Miguel
de Cozumel.
The island is about 48 km (30 miles) north-south and 16 km (10 miles) east-west, and is the
largest Atlantic island of Mexico. (It is the third-largest island in Mexico, following Tiburón
Island and Isla Ángel de la Guarda.) It is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the mainland, and
some 60 km (36 miles) south of Cancún. The vast majority of the population of Cozumel lives in the town of San Miguel (pop. 71,401
in 2005), which is on the western shore. The rest of the island is low, flat, and densely
vegetated.
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Things to do in Cozumel
Tours, Attractions and
Shore Excursion
An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure or educational purposes.
It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place.
Public transportation companies issue reduced price excursion tickets to attract business of this
type. Often these tickets are restricted to off-peak days or times for the destination
concerned.
Short excursions for education or for observations of natural phenomena are called field trips.
One-day educational field studies are often made by classes as extracurricular exercises, e.g. to
visit a natural or geographical feature.
The term is also used for short military movements into foreign territory, without a formal
announcement of war. {From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia}
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