Context and practical guidance around Aldea Zama, La Veleta, Region 15, Selva Zama, and the urban geography shaping Tulum.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A cooling property market reset the math for digital nomads in Tulum, where quiet studios with private pools, real coworking, and nearby cenotes cost far less than they did at the peak.
After years as a hub for remote workers, Digital Jungle Tulum will close at the end of July. Its founders are channeling their energy into VESICA, a nearby jungle cenote sanctuary.
Buyers of Ocean Tulum say Grupo VINSA never delivered their apartments or returned their money, with some waiting over three years and now turning to Profeco and the courts.
Tulum's government has launched consultations to redesign Avenida 7 Sur as a pedestrian commercial corridor in La Veleta, with wider sidewalks, green areas, and a 10 km/h vehicle limit.
Tulum's collapse didn't arrive without warning. For years, every signal was there. This is the story of a paradise that knew what it needed and never got it.
An unidentified body in advanced decomposition was found Thursday in an overgrown lot in Tulum's Region 15 after neighbors reported a foul odor. Cause of death remains under investigation.
