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Key facts
- Location
- Tulum , Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Area
- 5,281 km (2,039 mi )
- Administrator
- National Commission of Natural Protected Areas
- Type
- Natural
- Criteria
- (vii), (x)
- Designated
- 1987 (11th session )
- Region
- Latin America and the Caribbean
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- biosphere reserve
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Quintana Roo
- Area
- 528000
- Location
- Tulum Municipality
- Image
- México - Sian Ka'an, Boat Tour.JPG
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- Commons category
- Sian Ka´an
- IUCN protected areas category
- IUCN category VI: Protected Area with sustainable use of natural resources
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve URL
- www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/mexico/sian-kaan
- member of
- Man and the Biosphere Programme
- native label
- Sian Ka'an
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Sian Kaʼan Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biósfera de Sian Kaʼan) is a biosphere reserve in Tulum Municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It was established in 1986 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
The term Sian Kaʼan, from the Yuatec Mayan language, "means 'gate of heaven' or 'a place where heaven begins.'"
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sian Ka'an” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.