PDC Location
Mayan Riviera
History
Activities
Wildlife
100
The state PDC is part of.
What is Quintana Roo?
100
The peninsula that is home to the Riviera Maya, found in southern Mexico and portions of Guatemala and Belize.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
100
The Mayans had one of the most sophisticated scripts of the Americas. They used this kind of writing system (general term), with more than 800 pictures used as symbols to represent words, syllables, or phrases.
What are hieroglyphs?
100
Major theme park that includes underground rivers and a coral reef aquarium.
What is Xcaret?
100
This species of large lizard is extremely common along coastal areas.
What are iguanas?
200
The main pedestrian street that is the center of town.
What is 15th Avenue?
200
This city, now known for its spiritual and wellness community and well-preserved ruins, was one of the last built and inhabited cities of the Maya.
What is Tulum?
200
You can now visit the ruins and pyramid of this pre-Columbian Yucatan city, about 2.5 hours from Cancun.
What is Chichen Itza?
200
This geological formation is a natural pit with exposed groundwater and is often used as underground swimming pools.
What is a cenote?
200
The largest species of shark, which you can swim with off the coast of Cancun, only lives there during the summer.
What is a whale shark?
300
The large jazz festival held on the last weekend of every November.
What is the Riviera Maya Jazz Festival?
300
This fishing town and important sea port south of Cancun is known for its mangrove swamp.
What is Puerto Morelos?
300
Quintana Roo was made a state in this year.
What is 1974?
300
You can take guided tours to swim and hike in this underground "secret river" filled with stalagmites and stalactites in PDC.
What is Rio Secreto?
300
You can find these loud monkeys in the jungles of PDC.
What are howler monkeys? 
400
This common street food dessert is a rolled wafer topped with chocolate, fruit, or other sweets.
What are marquesitas?
400
The second largest barrier reef system in the world (just behind the Great Barrier Reef in Australia), stretches down the Yucatan Peninsula to the coastline of Honduras.
What is the Mesoamerican Reef?
400
A ritualistic Mayan ball game played 1,000 years ago, the losers of which are thought to have been sacrificed to the gods (talk about high stakes).
What is Pok-A-Tok?
400
Length of time to ride the ferry between PDC and the island of Cozumel.
What is 45 minutes?
400
These colorful large birds can be found walking around Mayan ruins or in forests and fields.
What are oscellated turkeys?
500
This 50 foot tall beach statue is symbolic in Mayan culture for acting as a portal for direct communication from the human world to the gods.
What is Portal Maya?
500
This small and quiet beach town between PDC and Tulum is known for its scuba diving spots and many sea turtles, whose name literally means "Place of the Turtles" in Mayan.
What is Akumal?
500
We use a base 10 number system (the 10 digits are 0-9), but the Mayans used this base for their number system.
What is base 20?
500
A pirate themed dinner cruise and live entertainment adventure show that takes place on a pirate ship off the Cancun coast!
What is Captain Hook Cancun?
500
This endangered creature can weight from 330 to 880 pounds.
What is a tapir?
