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Cancun Beach Being Restored At A Record Pace
hen Hurricane Wilma Caribbean's most beautiful
swept through Cancun last beaches. But the resort town of
October the mighty winds roughly 300,000 is perched on the
stripped away 8 miles of some of extreme southeast end of the
the most beautiful sandy beach in Yucatan Peninsula, looking out
the world. Everyone from Mexican into the Caribbean, and too often
President Vincente Fox down to is directly in the path of
the local residents knew that the hurricanes that come sweeping in
beach had to be restored or from the sea.
Cancun's future was in serious
danger. The problem of beach erosion
existed long before Hurricane
Within weeks the Mexican Wilma. Local Cancun officials
government pledged $21 million to have known for years that the
restore the beach. Now they have shoreline was eroding and the
made good on that promise, and a beach was being washed out to
massive barge being run by a sea. That process was given a
Belgian firm is working day and boost by Hurricane Gilbert which
night to replace the sand. swept away about half the beach
in September of 1988.
The target date to have the
brilliant white sand back in One of the positive outcomes of
place is the end of April, and Hurricane Wilma is that it got
already the large earth moving the government to make the
machines are smoothing the sand commitment to beach restoration.
dredged up from the sea bed. What seashore experts had been
trying to do for more than 17
**A long-standing problem years, Hurricane Wilma did in a
matter of days.
Cancun has some of the
**An essential resource for restaurants and several hundred
Cancun shops. There are roads leading to
the forest, making it an easy
Erosion of coastlines and beaches trip to see the forest and
is a problem around the world, remains of ancient local Mayan
but in Cancun, where it is the culture.
very lifeblood of the resort, the
disaster of Wilma finally led to Roughly 3 million tourists came
serious action. to Cancun last year, spending
about $4 billion. But Wilma has
Cancun consists of three distinct put a damper on tourism this
areas. Ciudad de Cancun, the year. Working flat out, local
actual town, has a population of workers expect that by May, about
about 300,000. Off the beach, the 90% of Cancun's hotel rooms will
ecological reserve, has be cleaned, redecorated and ready
incredible lakes, forests and for guests. The restaurants, bars
mangrove marshland. And then and malls will be reopened, and
there's the Zona Hotelera, which more than 10,000 new palm trees
is an island where most of the will be planted along the main
hotels and shopping malls are streets of the resort town.
found.
The thousands of tourists, who
Cancun is a mecca for tourists are already starting to return to
from the U.S., Canada, and this famous resort, will be back
Europe. It has more than 25,000 in droves once the rebuilding and
hotel rooms, hundreds of restoration are complete.
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