Solidaridad (Quintana Roo)

Solidaridad
Municipality
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Location of Solidaridad in Quintana Roo
Solidaridad Location within Mexico
Coordinates: 20°37′N 87°05′W / 20.617°N 87.083°W / 20.617; -87.083Coordinates: 20°37′N 87°05′W / 20.617°N 87.083°W / 20.617; -87.083
Country	Mexico
State	Quintana Roo
Established	28 July 1993
Municipal seat	Playa del Carmen
Government
• Municipal President	José Mauricio Góngora Escalante
Area
• Municipality	2,278 km2 (880 sq mi)
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population (2010)
• Municipality	159,310
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
• Urban	155,902
Time zone	Southeast (US Eastern) (UTC−5)
INEGI Code	23008
Website	www.solidaridad.gob.mx

Solidaridad is one of the eleven municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Its municipal seat is the town of Playa del Carmen.

Solidaridad is home to the Maya archaeological site of Xcaret.

The municipality has some small but rich continental sites including the ecotourism park of Xcaret. Prior to the creation of the Municipality of Tulum, the municipality was situated between latitudes 20° 45' and 19° 46' north and longitudes 86° 57' and 88° 05' west, and had an area of 4,245.67 square kilometres (1,639.26 sq mi). Today, it borders the municipalities of Benito Juárez and Lázaro Cárdenas to the north and Tulum to the south; and is separated in most places from its neighboring municipality to the east (Cozumel) by a stretch of the Caribbean Sea known as the Cozumel Channel.

The ecotourism park of Xel-Ha and the Calica limestone quarry are not part of Solidaridad as they belong to the neighboring municipality of Cozumel. These are the only two mainland locations for the municipality of Cozumel with sizes of 90 hectares (220 acres) and 11.9 hectares (29 acres) respectively. All of the limestone from Calica is exported to the US, and the quarry has its own docks and also serves visiting cruise ships.

Like most of the Yucatan Peninsula, Solidaridad is almost entirely flat with a gentle slope towards the sea, so from west to east, most of the area never reaches an altitude above 25 metres (82 ft) above sea level.