Mexico is bordered by the United States to the north and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast. Mexico is about one-fifth the size of the United States. Baja California in the west is an 800-mile (1,287-km) peninsula that forms the Gulf of California. In the east are the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Campeche, which is formed by Mexico's other peninsula, the Yucatán. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with ocean-front lowlands beyond. Despite the fact that in the late years the news that comes from Mexico provide an image of violence there are some curious remarks. The 95 percent of Mexico's municipalities are at least as safe as the average traveler's hometown. Yucatan state, for example, had 0.1 of a murder for every 100,000 people in 2010 - no U.S. tourist destination comes close to that. Most cities in central Mexico, outside of the scattered drug hot spots, have lower murder rates than Orlando. Media sensationalism accounts for much of the wariness. "Gangland violence in western Mexico" "Journa-lists under attack in Mexico" and "Mexico mass grave toll climbs" sound as if the entire country were a killing field. But the reality it totally different in the Peninsula of Yucatan and specially in the state of Quintana Roo, where Tulum is. Being one of the states with a growth more prosperous in Latin America.
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