Tourist attraction
Punta Sur
Clifftop headland with a rebuilt Maya shrine to Ixchel, a sculpture garden and sunrise sea views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Punta Sur, the cliff at the southern tip of Isla Mujeres off Playa del Carmen, turns on one Spanish captain, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, and the day in fifteen seventeen he stepped ashore on an island full of small clay women. It follows the Maya pilgrims who left them for Ixchel, goddess of the moon and childbirth, and the careless way the island got its name. Best heard beside the small stone temple on the point, with the sea churning below.
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