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Description: The imageabove shows Cancún on April 11, 2019. The images were acquired by the the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. In the late 1980s, Cancún’s population registered around 120,000. A census report in 2015 conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) reported around 740,000 people. Most of the hotels are located on a 27-kilometer (17-mile) stretch of beach known as the Hotel Zone.
Title: How Cancún Grew into a Major Resort
Credit: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146194/how-cancun-grew-into-a-major-resort
Author: NASA image by Allison Nussbaum, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kasha Patel.
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