Context and practical guidance around Aldea Zama, La Veleta, Region 15, Selva Zama, and the urban geography shaping Tulum.
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CFE bills in Tulum doubled in two cycles, Aldea Zama residents say, with charges on empty apartments, 1,000 signatures to the president, and amparos that changed nothing.
Federal road upkeep funding is set to fall by nearly half in 2027, and the requests Tulum has pending on Highway 307 are contingent on a budget that deputies have not yet voted on.
Road safety in Tulum hinges on streets the municipality does not yet own. The engineers' association wants them municipalized, starting in the fast-growing south.
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.
Suspected La Veleta water contamination, seen in neighbors' videos of cloudy, foul-smelling water, has a Tulum group asking authorities to sample the aquifer.
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.
Coworking spaces in Tulum run from about 14 dollars a day to 22 dollars a day, and monthly memberships from 150 to 300. What the price does not cover is the outage.
Twenty-three absorption wells, each 20 meters deep, are almost done across Tulum as the wettest months begin. The statement names one street and gives no price. The 2023 batch had one.
A long-term rental in Tulum averaged 19,066 pesos a month across 113 listings on September 2. What that buys by neighborhood, and the costs the rent leaves out.
Tulum security cameras now number more than 1,850, up from 400. The rule governing growth lies in the municipal revenue law, not in a police regulation.
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.
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.
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.
Calle 7 Tulum is a construction site again. Curbs and sidewalks are going in, the center of the street is still broken, and no completion date has been given.
Quintana Roo's prosecutor announced four Tulum homicide arrests, including a Canadian national and a 17-year-old, in cases tied to the killings of a taxi driver and another man.
Numbeo puts rent, power, internet, and a phone in Tulum at 12,430 pesos a month. The rest of the cost of living in Tulum, priced line by line for 2026.
Tulum's environmental office is asking residents to stay calm after a wild feline in La Veleta appeared on security cameras, one of at least five recent wildlife sightings in the neighborhood.
Attackers on motorcycles killed a man known as El Moreno outside his home in Carlos Joaquín González, the second fatal Tulum shooting in four days. No arrests have been announced.
The Tulum shooting in La Veleta came three weeks after federal officials stood in the town and reported two straight months without a homicide. Prosecutors have named no motive and no suspects.
The Tulum public space operation starts in La Veleta, where inspectors and municipal police will review street vendors, mechanical workshops, and abandoned property.
Tulum's street commerce operation begins Monday in La Veleta, where inspectors will target unlicensed vendors, roadside mechanic shops and blocked roads before the effort reaches the city center.
