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 The Hotel Zone, though technically an island. is rarely referred to as one. If you discount the 20 meters that would be the beach (and was federal property anyway), there wasn’t even space for a dirt track, much less five-star hotels. Rendering this narrow spit of land suitable for high-rise construction was a challenge. In the end 300 meters of lagoon were ‘reclaimed’ using sascab (limestone) as infill to create the future home of over 80 upscale hotels, shoppng centers, restaurants, golf courses, discos, various embarcaderos, a four-lane highway and all the rest. Downtown Cancún and the international airport are located on the mainland.
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