10 pueblos fantasma de Quintana Roo que apostaría que no conoces

On September 27, 1955, Hurricane Janet made landfall in Quintana Roo with winds of 175 miles per hour (282 kilometers per hour). Within hours, it destroyed Xcalak, the territory's first capital, which produced 300 tons of coconuts per month. Only 120 bodies were recovered. The city, which had been the capital, never recovered. Today, it has 400 inhabitants. Quintana Roo also has an atoll where pirates used to extinguish the navy's lighthouse and place a fake lantern on a raft to lure merchant ships onto the reef. It is the largest atoll in Mexico and the second largest in the world. And it has a town named after the wife of the man who gave the state its name. It was founded by an English bank in 1902 to extract chicle (chickpea gum) using horse-drawn wagons to transport it to the coast. The market collapsed after World War II, and the town was abandoned. True story. Facts verified. Subscribe so you don't miss the next ones — a different state each week. #GhostTowns #QuintanaRoo #AbandonedMexico #GhostTownsMX #MexicanHistory #AbandonedPlaces #UnknownMexico