Puerto Juárez

Puerto Juárez is a district in the Benito Juárez municipality, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is in the north-east of the Yucatán Peninsula, on the shore of the Caribbean Sea, 2 km (1.25 mi) north from the center of Cancún. Puerto Juárez was the primary location of the original population of the area before the founding of the city of Cancún, and was a separate location from 1960 until 1990 when it was abolished as such and incorporated as one of Cancún's districts.

Puerto Juárez
City District
Gran Puerto port in Puerto Juárez
Coordinates: 21°10′56.6″N 86°48′31.4″W

Ferry

Gran Puerto is the ferry port located in Puerto Juárez. It serves as a primary way to access Isla Mujeres, an island around 10 km (6 mi) from Puerto Juárez, from Cancún. The regular ferry service runs twice an hour on the high-speed ferry Ultramar. The ferry terminal has two lines for Ultramar passengers, restrooms, a parking garage, convenience store, and ticketing area.

In the 1950s, there was a proposal from Cuba to run a ferry from Puerto Juárez to Pinar del Río Province, Cuba, as part of the Pan-American Highway. The distance would only be a little more than that of the Havana–Key West ferry, with which it would have been linked by highway. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 ended the project.