Tulum Municipality
Tulum Municipality is one of the eleven municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It became a municipality when it was formed on 13 March 2008, at which time it was separated from Solidaridad Municipality.
Tulum is home to the Maya archaeological sites of Tulum and Cobá.
Geography
The municipality of Tulum borders the municipalities of Solidaridad to the north and Felipe Carrillo Puerto to the south, in the state of Quintana Roo. It also borders Chemax Municipality and Valladolid Municipality in the state of Yucatán on the northwest, and the Caribbean Sea on the east.Orography and hydrography
Like most of the Yucatan Peninsula Tulum is entirely flat with a gentle slope towards the sea, so from west to east, the area never reaches an altitude higher than above sea level. The municipality is above sea level on average.Like the rest of the peninsula's surface the land has a limestone base that does not allow the formation of surface water flows such as rivers and streams; the water instead flows in underground rivers that sometimes rise to the surface in the cenotes. Lakes and cenotes are the major bodies of water in the municipality.
Communities
The municipality consists of 170 populated localities, plus an additional 224 unpopulated localities, and includes part of a biosphere reserve. The largest localities are:| Name | Population |
| Tulum | 33,374 |
| Akumal | 2,154 |
| Cobá | 1,738 |
| Chanchen Primero | 1,078 |
| Francisco Hu May | 1,288 |
| San Juan | 770 |
| Macario Gómez | 884 |
| Cuidad Chemuyil | 548 |
| Manuel Antonio Hay | 621 |
| Total municipality | 46,721 |