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Según los expertos, es lo más adecuado para su conservación

Cuando un objeto metálico que estuvo mucho tiempo depositado en el mar es extraído, el hierro sufre grave deterioro y éste es el caso de los tres cañones del siglo XVIII hallados en la playa Paraíso, Quintana Roo, en la zona arqueológica de Tulum.

Tras consultar con expertos de las secciones de Restauración y Arqueología Subacuática del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia se determinó que lo más conveniente será devolverlos al mar en un sitio bajo control y donde se pueda monitorear su estado de conservación.

“La idea es que también puedan ser apreciados por los visitantes mediante el buceo y la colocación de señales adecuadas”, indica Adriana Velázquez Morlet, directora del Centro del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) de Quintana Roo.”

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Airport, Hotels, Beaches, and Shopping Centers Operating at 100%

CANCUN, Mexico–(BUSINESS WIRE)–“We were very fortunate,” explains CEO, Arturo Escaip of the Cancun Convention & Visitors’ Bureau. “We experienced some rainfall and wind but we virtually came out of this storm unscathed. We learned a lot from Wilma in 2005, so when Dean was aiming towards us, we were very well prepared.

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By Kat Morgenstern, Sacred Earth Travel

Tourists are often accused of leaving their mess everywhere and adding to local waste management problems. Garbage is unsightly no matter whether it happens to lie around on our doorstep or outside the hotel room, or on the beach. Some tourists around the world have started initiatives to clean up after themselves.

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“The truth is that yes, a lot of beach was lost,” said Jaime Gonzalez Cano, director of Isla Mujeres National Park. “What we can offer tourists at this moment are rocks with a very small amount of sand.”

Go to original, International Herald Tribune

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Click on picture to enlarge Reuters photo by Victor Ruiz

The site of world-famous Mayan archaeological ruins, Tulum is located 110 miles north of where the eye of the Category 5 hurricane made landfall in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday. And like so much of the Yucatan Peninsula that has been ravaged by countless storms over the decades, Tulum actually came out of Dean in surprisingly good shape. Electrical power went out soon after midnight and some tree branches were shorn off by the storm’s powerful winds.

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The beach from Punta Cancún (Camino Real) to Punta Nizuc (Club Med) has “disappeared,” Virgina Prospero reports today in Novedades de Quintana Roo.

Below, Playa Delfines (also know as Playa Mirador).

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