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Chetumal

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[che-too-mahl] / ˌtʃɛ tuˈmɑl /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Quintana Roo, in SE Mexico.


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Both of my parents were born in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico and studied in Merida.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2025

“I do not understand what the government is waiting for to act,” says Nataly Castelblanco Martínez, a Colombian conservation biologist at the Autonomous University of Quintana Roo in Chetumal, Mexico, and co-author of the study.

From Scientific American • Mar. 2, 2023

“It was this hidden jewel. When you drive from Chetumal to Tulum, or Playa del Carmen, you don’t even see it,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2019

Sojo said Mexico will receive downloads from Landsat 8 at a station operated by the country's space agency in the Caribbean coastal city of Chetumal, on the southeastern border with Belize.

From US News • Nov. 13, 2015

In the early 1980s I visited Chetumal, a coastal city on the Mexico- Belize border.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann