Quintana Roo occurs as state of Mexico, on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula. It borders a states of Yucatán and Campeche to a north & west, the Caribbean Sea to a east, and the united states of Belize to the south.

A capital of Quintana Roo is the city of Chetumal. Quintana Roo too contains a resort city of Cancún, the islands of Cozumel and Isla Mujeres, the towns of Bacalar, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Playa del Carmen, Puerto Juárez, Akumal, and Puerto Morelos, when well as a ancient Maya ruins of Chacchoben, Chakanbakán, Chamax, Coba, Dzibanché, El Meco, Ichpaatán, Kohunlich, Muyil, Oxtankah, Tankah, Tulum, Tupak, Xel-Há, and Xcaret. A Sian Ka'an national park is also in Quintana Roo.

A state covers an metropolitan area of 50,350 km², & a 2000 census reported a people of a select few 874,000. a statewide people is presently expanding at a rapid rate due to the construction of hotels & the require for workers. Numerous immigrants to the state are from either Yucatán, Campeche, Tabasco, and Veracruz.

A vicinity that is modern Quintana Roo was hanker a portion of Yucatán, sharing its history. By owning a War of the Castes starting in the 1840s, all Ladinos were caused from either a vicinity & a independent Maya nation of Chan Santa Cruz was centered on what is currently a town of Felipe Carrillo Puerto. the region was for a period dominated per religion of the "Talking Cross": inside the church was the cross restrained by Maya priests that was said to speak & give the children orders. A Mexican government continued to keep around super little control on top this area until a early decades of the 20th century.

Quintanthe Roo was processed a territory of Mexico by rescript of President Porfirio Díaz on November 24, 1902. It was known as when an early nationalist of the Mexican Republic, Andrés Quintana Roo. A Mexican army succeeded inside defeating virtually all of a Maya people of the vicinity in the period of the 1910s, and around 1915 the area was over again declared to legally become section of the state of Yucatán. Within 1931 the territory of Quintana Roo was again separated from either Yucatán.

Quintana Roo was granted statehood inside a United Mexican States in October 8, 1974. These are a Mexican Republic's immature state.

Municipalities
Quintana Roo is divided into eight municipalities (municipios). Look at municipalities of Quintana Roo.