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Travel to Mexico travel
Mexico is a country flourishing with distinctive culture and history. As the country in Latin America with the highest amount of tourism, Mexico offers a range of opportunities to discover its ancient historical landmarks or pamper in one of its numerous exclusive resorts right on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean. Mexico is huge! It’s also varied, thrilling, stunning, and yes, sometimes challenging. All part of why there’s so much on put forward irrespective of what you’re seeking. Whether you want a comforting beach holiday, an exciting city getaway, a cultural interest, a party week, a nature retreat or a foodie shelter, Mexico has it all and more.
Diving in Mexico
Mexico is an easy-to-reach heaven that ranks high on many scuba divers’ wish lists. Between the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Caribbean and a freshwater cave system, it grasps thousands of dive sites to discover, counting everything from shark stumbles upon to pure reefs and manta cleaning stations. Mexico is maybe the best destination in the world for an introduction to cave diving. Cenote Dos Ojos (or Cenote Two Eyes) cave reaches for over 50 miles (80 kilometers) and offers numerous dive paths through its several passages and rooms. Isla Guadalupe is one of the best places to dive with great white sharks.
Dive regions in Mexico (8)
Cabo Pulmo National Park
Cabo Pulmo National Park is a marine protected area on the East Cape of Baja California Sur, Mexico, known for one of the oldest and northernmost coral reefs in the eastern Pacific.
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Cozumel Reefs National Marine Park
Cozumel Reefs National Marine Park protects the coral reef system along the southern and southwestern coast of Cozumel Island, part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
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Espiritu Santo Islands (La Paz)
Isla Espiritu Santo and its smaller sister island Isla Partida form an uninhabited volcanic island group in the Gulf of California, about 26 km from La Paz, Baja California Sur.
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Huatulco National Park
Huatulco National Park protects a stretch of bays and coral communities along the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, and is a recognized scuba diving destination on Mexico's southern mainland coast.
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Islas Marietas
Islas Marietas is a small national-park archipelago off Punta de Mita in Banderas Bay, Nayarit, on Mexico's mainland Pacific coast near Puerto Vallarta, popular for scuba diving and snorkeling.
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Puerto Morelos Reef National Park
Puerto Morelos Reef National Park protects a section of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef directly offshore from the town of Puerto Morelos, known for shallow, easily accessible reef diving.
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Revillagigedo Archipelago (Socorro)
The Revillagigedo Archipelago is a remote group of four volcanic islands in the eastern Pacific southwest of the Baja California Peninsula, renowned for large pelagic encounters including giant manta rays and sharks.
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Riviera Maya Cenote Region
The Riviera Maya cenote region, along the Caribbean coast between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, sits above one of the world's most extensive networks of flooded limestone caves and sinkholes (cenotes).
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Dive shops in Mexico (92)
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Scuba Playa
Playa del Carmen
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Scuba Tulum
Tulum
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Scubaver
Veracruz
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SDA-Swiss Divers Association
Acapulco de Juárez
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Sharks Friends Tulum
Tulum
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Silent World Divers
Puerto Vallarta
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Spearmex Freediving Academy
Punta de Mita
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The Cortez Club
La Paz
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Tio Sports
Cabo San Lucas
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Twin Dolphins Dive Center
Puerto Vallarta
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Veracruz Adventures
Veracruz
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Wet Set Diving Adventures
Puerto Morelos
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Yucatan Dive Center
Mérida
Dive sites in Mexico (133)
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Country info
Capital
Mexico City
Region
Americas
Subregion
Central America
Population
122.273.473
Area
1.964.375 km2
Currency
Mexican peso (MXN)
Languages
Español
Time zones
UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00
Dialing code
+52
Demonym
Mexican
Top-Level-Domain
.mx
Staatenbuende
Pacific Alliance, North American Free Trade Agreement