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11 unusual facts about Cozumel


70000 Tons of Metal

It first took place between January 24 and January 28 of 2011, departing from Miami, docking at Cozumel and returning to Miami.

Bon Secour, Alabama

Some local vessels have been known to travel from the Alabama Gulf Coast, across the Gulf of Mexico and Bay of Campeche to Cozumel (Mexico), Playa del Carmen, Cancún, etc.

Cozumel Island coati

The Cozumel Island coati (Nasua narica nelsoni) is a coati from the Mexican island of Cozumel.

Diamonds International

Diamonds International was founded in 1986 on the island of St Thomas and currently operates 129 stores in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Costa Maya, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Juneau, Ketchikan, Key West, Mazatlán, Playa Del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta, San Jose Del Cabo, Skagway, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Turks & Caicos.

Isla de Pasion

Isla de Pasion (Passion Island) is a tourist attraction in Cozumel, Mexico.

Island raccoon

The term island raccoons is used as a generic term for five subspecies or species of raccoon (Procyon) endemic on small Central American and Caribbean islands, such as Cozumel and Guadeloupe.

José Salgado Fernández

José Enrique Salgado Fernández (born June 10, 1989 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer and the current North American Boxing Association Super Flyweight Champion.

MV Sound of Jura

In Mexico, Quintana Roo opened up a new car ferry route between Puerto Morelos, on the Yucatán Peninsula and the island of Cozumel.

The Mexican Government operated her to Cozumel as Quintana Roo until 2005, when she was wrecked by Hurricane Wilma.

Sara Ruiz Chávez

Ruiz Chávez began her political career in her native Cozumel, serving in the public administration of the Municipality of Cozumel; then she served in the cabinets of Joaquín Hendricks and Félix González Canto.

Splendid toadfish

The splendid toadfish, Sanopus splendidus, also called the coral toadfish and the Cozumel splendid toadfish is a species of toadfish entirely endemic to the island of Cozumel.


1924 Cuba hurricane

The next day, the storm reached hurricane status about 130 mi (215 km) southeast of Cozumel, Quintana Roo.

Cozumel Thrasher

Until it was sighted in June 2004, this bird had last been seen in 1995, the same year that Hurricane Roxanne hit Cozumel on October 11, and it was widely believed to have become extinct.

MyTravel Airways

MyTravel Aircraft Engineering Caribbean, part of MTAE had bases throughout the Caribbean in Cancún, Cozumel, Montego Bay, Newark, New Jersey and Sanford, Florida, as well as seasonal bases at various Spanish, Greek and Turkish airports as well as Jeddah for the Hajj operation.