Chetumal Airport | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo, Mexico | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°30′30″N88°19′22″W / 18.50827°N 88.32285°W | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
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| Opening | September 29, 2024 (ceremonial) [1] October 6, 2024 (passenger service) [2] | ||||||||||||
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Chetumal Airport is a train station near Chetumal, Quintana Roo. The station connects with the Chetumal International Airport. [4]
Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the Tren Maya project in his 2018 presidential campaign. On 13 August 2018, he announced the complete outline. The new Tren Maya put Chetumal Airport station on the route connecting Tulum, Quintana Roo and Escárcega, Campeche. [5]
Chetumal Airport station was symbolically "inaugurated" by López Obrador on September 29, 2024, [1] making it the last Tren Maya station to be inaugurated during his presidency. [6] However, it, alongside stations in Bacalar, did not begin passenger service until October 6. [2]
Bacalar is the municipal seat and largest city in Bacalar Municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Chetumal. In the 2010 census the city had a population of 11,084. At that time it was still part of Othón P. Blanco, and was its second-largest city (locality), after Chetumal.
Xpujil is a town in the Mexican state of Campeche. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Calakmul. As of 2010, Xpujil had a population of 3,984.
The Tren Maya is a 1,554 km-long (966 mi) intercity railway in Mexico that traverses the Yucatán Peninsula. Construction began in June 2020 and the Campeche–Cancún section began operation on December 15, 2023, with the rest of the line to open later. The railway begins in Cancún International Airport and travels southwest towards Palenque, Chiapas, via two routes that encircle the peninsula.
Palenque railway station (Spanish: Estación de Palenque, referred to as Pakal Ná by Tren Interoceánico, is a railway station located between the towns of Palenque and Pakal Ná in Chiapas, Mexico. The station was built on the territory of a former airport. It is the southern terminus of the Tren Maya.
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Calkiní is a train station near Calkiní, Campeche.
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Izamal is a train station 7 km west of Izamal, Yucatán. Section 3 of the Tren Maya will end here. This station will help connect the main Yucatecan cities with the rest of the peninsula.
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Valladolid station is a future train station 5 km north of Valladolid, Yucatán.
Nuevo Xcán is a train station in the municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo. The station connects and serves local transportation and tourism with the Holbox area.
Cancún Airport is a train station located across Federal Highway 180 from Cancún International Airport. It is the most important station on the entire Tren Maya network, served by trains to all other stations.
Tulum is a train station near Tulum, Quintana Roo, on the Tren Maya system.
Tulum Airport is a train station located next to the Tulum International Airport.
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It was inaugurated more than a week ago by Andrés Manuel López Obrador prior to the end of his presidency. Despite being inaugurated on September 29, the station was not finished. Now, however, the Chetumal Tren Maya station is finished and began operating Sunday.
