Isla Contoy
Protected mangrove-and-lagoon island, national park sheltering Mexico's largest brown pelican colony.
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This guide to Isla Contoy off Cancún opens with the pirate-treasure legend fishermen still whisper about the island, and the historians who found no evidence anyone set foot here for centuries. It traces where the name Contoy likely comes from, the explorers who found the island thick with birds in 1892, and the lighthouse raised under Porfirio Díaz to warn ships off the reef. Only two hundred visitors are allowed onto the island each day.
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