Did you know? Cancun was a small fishing village until 1970 and is a perfect location to photograph bikinis

Cancún is located on the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, facing the Caribbean Sea. It is essentially a service town for the L-shaped resort area of Isla Cancún, which is 13 miles long by 0.25 mile (400 meters) wide. The Cancún Island resort area is linked by a causeway to Cancún city.

The island, with its skyscraper hotels and sprawling resorts, and the coastal area occupied by Cancún city have abundant white sand beaches, palm groves, and coral reefs. The warm, tropical climate has a short rainy season.

Originally settled by Maya Indians, the area was recorded as Cancúne in 1843 by the American explorer John Lloyd Stephens and the British explorer Frederick Catherwood in their classic work, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843).

Cancún remained a small fishing-and-gathering settlement until 1970, when, after a three-year study of conditions by the Mexican government in association with private interests, the area was selected as a suitable site for an international holiday center.

A building boom in the 1980s transformed Cancún Island into a major resort for tourists from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.

Many swimwear companies use the Cancún backdrop to photograph their swimwear collections. Ujena Swimwear company lead by chief photographer Bob Anderson first travelled to Cancun in 1985. (Photo is of Ujena’s cover model Carolina taken in 2011 on a beach in Cancun.)

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