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Isla Mujeres

Isla Mujeres is a small island in the Caribbean Sea off the north-east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Cancún, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The Maya had a shrine there to the goddess Ixchel, and Spaniards of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba's expedition named it in 1517 after the female figures they found. It is now a tourist resort.

Isla Mujeres
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Isla Mujeres. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/isla-mujeres
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