The underwater oasis of Yucatán

While the majority of tourists who come to the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico working climbing the mysterious Mayan ruins or Tan in the beautiful beaches, divers and divers engaged to admire the great diversity of underwater life in this region. Puerto Morelos, a fishing village just 32 kilometers south of Cancun international tourist centre, is one of the bases from which can carry out adventures under water by the great Mayan reef. This reef is part of the second the coral reef longest in the world, which extends along the eastern coast of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula to the South, Belize and Honduras, in a total of 350 kilometres.
While it is much narrower than the great Australian coral barrier, the great Mayan reef reaches depths of more than 40 meters on the Island of Cozumel. The extraordinary transparency of the water makes it possible that in some places there is a visibility of up to 27 meters, which is why is one of the areas of diving more appreciated worldwide.

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