A land of unequaled beauty, mystery and amazing underground rivers where the Maya use to kept their undiscovered secrets…

Nowadays the Mayan Riviera has one of the most spectacular landscapes of the entire World!
Nestled between the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula and the Caribbean Sea lies a seemingly endless white sand beach dotted with quaint villages and stunning resorts. 

What a great name for a state: Quintana Roo (pronounced "Row"), is a pleasure to roll off the tongue. But the words have important meaning too, commemorating Andres Quintana Roo, who played a role in the Independence movement of Mexico; with his wife, he was imprisoned, escaped from the Inquisition, and generally lived a life that deserved to be famous even if he hadn't been a distinguished poet as well.
As for Quintana Roo, the state: it's in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula, at Mexico's south-eastern tip. Quintana Roo has land borders to the south with Guatemala and Belize, and has warm Caribbean seas to the east and north. 

Mangroves (generally) are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics. The word is used in at least three senses,  most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used,  to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangal, and  narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora. Mangals are found in depositional coastal environments where fine sediments, often with high organic content, collect in areas protected from high energy wave action. 

The Silk Cotton or Ceiba Tree [Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.] is one of the largest trees in the American tropics. The tree has played an important role in the spiritual and economic lives of the peoples who live in the circum-Caribbean region.
There is always a ceiba tree in the center of every Maya settlement.

This magnificent and outstanding tree that can grow up to 120 feet high is the axis mundi of the Maya folks.