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Playa del Carmen

municipal seat of Playa del Carmen, State of Quintana Roo, Mexico
Place locality_of_mexico Q989988

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
locality of Mexico
Inception
1937[7]
Official website
letsplaya.mx[8]
Native label
Playa del Carmen[16]
Official name
Playa del Carmen[14]

Location

Country
Mexico[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 20.628°, -87.076°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Playa del Carmen Municipality[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+8, +10[17][18]
Population
305k (44k–305k, n=4)[9][10][11][12]

Codes

Local dialing code
984[6]
Postal code
77710–77728[4]
More facts +3
Capital of
Playa del Carmen Municipality[13]
Demonym
playense[15]
Licence plate code
23[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Playa del Carmen ar بلايا ديل كارمن el Πλάγια ντελ Κάρμεν he פלאיה דל כרמן hi प्लाया डेल कारमेन ja プラヤ・デル・カルメン ko 플라야델카르멘 ru Плайя-дель-Кармен ru Плая-дель-Кармен th ปลายาเดลการ์เมน zh 卡曼海滩 zh 卡门海滩 zh 普拉亞德爾卡曼
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
125309799
Library of Congress authority ID
n84054248
GND ID
4337529-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Aerial of Playa del Carmen, Mexico (28708057347).jpg ↗
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/Mexico/States/Quintana_Roo/Localities/Playa_del_Carmen/
Facebook location ID
111093072248995
Freebase ID
/m/01wvy3
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1689065
GeoNames ID
3521342
INEGI locality ID
230080001
MusicBrainz area ID
5fdfbba6-c28c-4aae-bfbd-f1c810264c1a
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559821305171
Show all 21 identifiers +9
OpenStreetMap relation ID
6329645
Quora topic ID
Playa-Del-Carmen
Reddit topic ID
playa_del_carmen
Subreddit
playa
Topic's main category
Category:Playa del Carmen
UN/LOCODE
MXPCM
WOEID
136973
Who's on First ID
102001459
Yale LUX ID
place/3926b170-1448-472d-9020-c0f463863add

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People who died here 5
Paco de Lucía, Alma Muriel, Joseph W. Barr, Leonid Afremov, Rubén Mendoza Ayala
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Capital of 1
Playa del Carmen Municipality
Country 1
Mexico
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Playa del Carmen Municipality
Located in time zone 1
UTC−05:00
← Capital 1
Playa del Carmen Municipality
← Contains settlement 1
Playa del Carmen Municipality
← Narrative location 1
Peregrina
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Summary

Playa del Carmen is a locality of Mexico[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Mexico emerging0.753 independent sources

evidence “Those clues pointed to a resort area near Playa del Carmen, Mexico, with a high degree of confidence.” forbes.com · read source

Related Entities

Mexico Paco de Lucía

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . micodigopostal.org. micodigopostal.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . e-local.gob.mx. e-local.gob.mx. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Censo de Población y Vivienda 2000. inegi.org.mx. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Censo de Población y Vivienda 2005. inegi.org.mx. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Censo de México de 2010. inegi.org.mx. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020. inegi.org.mx. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. inegi.org.mx. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . it-ch.topographic-map.com. it-ch.topographic-map.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Playa del Carmen Municipality
    Official website → https://letsplaya.mx/
    Category of associated people → Wikidata item
    Inception → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48215|batch #48215]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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