Lunara

First light at the protected beaches. Akumal is the community founded in 1958 by Pablo Bush Romero for the scuba divers — and the divers still head out at dawn, the small dive shops firing up the compressors, the residents on the path to the bay.

Akumal is the small beachfront community one hundred kilometers south of Cancún, between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, officially founded in 1958 by Pablo Bush Romero as a community for scuba divers. The name comes from the Mayan: 'Place of the Turtle.' The beaches to the north and south are endangered Green Sea Turtle habitat, protected by the Centro Ecológico Akumal (CEA), the local NGO that has shaped the corridor's conservation identity for decades. The coastline is organized as a series of five bays — Las Bahías de Akumal — starting south of Yal-Kú Lagoon (the freshwater-meets-saltwater snorkeling haven) and ending at Aventuras Akumal. Tulum is fifteen minutes south, Playa del Carmen thirty minutes north. Akumal reads as the part of the Riviera Maya the residents who came for the protected coastline and the turtle-conservation identity chose deliberately.

Inside Lunara, the project reads as a residential lot collection drawn around the protected coastline. Each lot spans 3,254 square feet — enough footprint to build a single-family home with a small private outdoor room, the kind of buildable lot the corridor's denser projects cannot offer. The project sits inside a planned residential community with the basic infrastructure (drainage, electricity, paved access) already in place — buildable from day one, with construction guidelines that hold the neighborhood character.

Fifty-two lots in total, twenty-eight still available, delivery set for August 2026. Entry pricing at $89,994 USD. Lunara sits in Akumal at the most accessible entry point for a buildable lot inside the protected coastline — for the first-time buyer in the Riviera Maya, for the buyer who came for the turtle-conservation identity of the coast. For the buyer entering the lot market at the smallest disciplined scale, this is one of the most accessible addresses in the neighborhood.