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Paseo Tulum hosts Day of the Dead events from October 30
Day of the Dead in Tulum brings five nights of altars, catrinas, and fire dancing to Paseo Tulum, the first street-level move in a campaign to bring visitors back.
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Neighbors report repeated crashes where La Veleta meets a highway with no crosswalk
A La Veleta road safety petition filed September 21 asks federal authorities to study the Highway 307 entrance at Avenida Quinta Sur and rule on a traffic light and a protected crossing.
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La Veleta Water Contamination Reports Push Residents to Seek Aquifer Testing in Tulum
Suspected La Veleta water contamination, seen in neighbors' videos of cloudy, foul-smelling water, has a Tulum group asking authorities to sample the aquifer.
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Towed in Tulum? One disputed bill shows why receipts matter
A driver disputes 5,761 pesos in Tulum tow truck charges from EconoGrúas. Most rates track the state tariff. The 1.92 units of maneuvering are the fight.
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Tourists Say Tulum Police Charged Them 20,000 Pesos for a 3,800 Peso Fine
Tulum police extortion is reported by visitors every day. What the municipal traffic rulebook actually authorizes, what a fine costs, and where to report an officer.
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The state wants a taximeter in every Tulum taxi, and the union wants Shark
Imoveqroo says the 24-zone fare board Tulum's taxi union published is not authorized, and that taximeters in Tulum are the answer. One La Veleta fare rose from 31 pesos to 100 pesos.
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A Minor Dies in a Cobá Motorcycle Crash and the Tulum Ambulance Breaks Down
A minor died, and two people were injured in a Cobá motorcycle crash on Saturday. The ambulance sent from Tulum broke down, and neighbors drove the survivors to Valladolid.
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Tulum road closures start Monday on the routes trucks use to skip the center
Tulum road closures began Monday for a CAPA sewer connection at Faisán and La Selva. The notice gives three days, then states that the work will run for an indefinite period.
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Tulum charges Madrid prices for a taxi, with one-sixth of Madrid's wages
Tulum taxi fares rose as much as 223 percent on an unsigned union list. The prices match those in Madrid, where workers earn about six times as much as in Quintana Roo.
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Rides inside La Veleta jump 223 percent on the new table
A 24-zone table has pushed Tulum taxi fares as high as 100 pesos on rides the state priced at 31 pesos. It shows no agreement number, signature, or stamp.
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Will the fare in Tulum's new taxi app match what the driver charges?
Tiburones del Caribe says its Tulum taxi app will launch on the Play Store in about 10 days, featuring fares for cruising cabs and schedules for the colectivos.
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A loud exhaust in Tulum carries a 1,575 peso fine, if anyone is checking
Motorcycle noise in Tulum returned to the municipal agenda nearly four months after an operation against modified exhausts, with residents asking why the checks stopped and the noise did not.
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Tulum picked its Señorita Independencia by online form
Tulum's Señorita Independencia 2026 and her two fellow titleholders were chosen via a digital form, with no public presentation and no publicly available voting controls.
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A bricklayer's week in Tulum fell from 6,000 pesos to 3,000
The Tulum construction slowdown has moved from the site count to the paycheck. The CROC says a skilled bricklayer's weekly earnings have fallen from 6,000 pesos to about 3,000.
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Fewer stops on the avenue, and passengers walk the difference to reach Playa
UNTRAC says two Tulum-to-Playa del Carmen colectivo stops were dropped on the main avenue and accuses the city of clearing curb space for a rival union. The city has not responded.
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A letter nobody in Tulum voted on decides when the power subsidy switches off
Electricity bills in Tulum are based on CFE tariff 1B, where the subsidy ends at 400 kilowatt-hours. How to read the recibo and the charge the courts struck down.
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The federal documents that explain why Tulum's public beach ever had a gate
Tulum beach access, reconstructed from the federal record. Decrees, tenders, 706 canceled titles, and documents that have not yet been published.
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215 kilometers of Highway 307 stand between a Bacalar harvest and a Tulum kitchen
Tulum and Bacalar producers get municipal transport to sell their harvests in each other's towns without an intermediary. The same two mayors announced a version of this in 2025.
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A 350 million peso hospital broke ground in Tulum with no opening date
The hospitals in Tulum are two, one public and one private, plus a free Red Cross ambulance. What each treats, what the law makes an ER do, and where referrals go.
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Your refrigerator is paying for a grid that never caught up with La Veleta
Power outages in Tulum start in the last kilometer of the network. Who supplies the service, why the rain trips the circuits, and why the same three colonias go first.
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Can you drink the tap water in Tulum?
Do not drink the tap water in Tulum. What it is fine for, what a garrafón costs, and why the aquifer under the town, not the tap itself, is the reason.