Puerto Aventuras, Q.R. — The plan to convert Puerto Aventuras into a municipality is still pending says its current mayor. Work on promoting Puerto Aventuras to become the state’s twelfth municipality is still being done.
Puerto Aventuras Mayor Gilberto Gómez says the project is still being planned but is held back due to a lack of infrastructure. In order to become an independent municipality, the town needs to update its essential services.
Gómez says those essential services include a high school, family medical facility and market to meet the demands of the more than 40,000 people who live there. According to Gómez, Puerto Aventuras has the space for such a market, but the space lacks the necessary characteristics to fulfill the requirements to serve the community.
“Aspiring to become a municipality is the dream of everyone in Puerto Aventuras, but first we must strengthen the foundations to achieve it successfully,” he said. In the meantime, he says the possibility of Puerto Aventuras becoming the twelfth municipality of Quintana Roo is still in the plans.
In December of 2021, the town voted in its first ever mayor. Shortly afterward, the announcement of working to become an independent municipality was made by its first elected mayor, Gilberto Gómez.
