Cancún

Meaning

Proper Noun

resort city Quintana Roo (state) in southeastern Mexico (country), on the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Origin

From Yucatec Maya kaan + kun, translating as either "nest of snake" or "place of the gold snake."

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