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Los Arcos
Playa del Carmen, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Water bodyCaribbean Sea
Water temp26–29°C
Estimated from climate dataNov–Sep
About this site
Los Arcos is a drift, reef and wall dive site near Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea. Marine life recorded within about 5 km (OBIS/GBIF) includes sea fans, stingrays, bull sharks, moray eels, reef sharks. Typical surface water temperature ranges from about 26 to 29 °C over the year.
Conditions by month
BestGoodMixedOctoberGood
Generally good diving.
Marine life
Recorded nearby
Yellow StingrayUrobatis jamaicensis
Southern StingrayHypanus americanus
Bull SharkCarcharhinus leucas
French GruntHaemulon flavolineatum
French AngelfishPomacanthus paru
Blue TangAcanthurus coeruleus
Sergeant MajorAbudefduf saxatilis
BlueheadThalassoma bifasciatum
Nearby sites
- 1Deepdivemexico2.3 km
- 2Playa del Carmen Bull Sharks2.9 km
- 3Playa del Carmen2.9 km
- 4Pargo Cave3.0 km
- 5Chun Zumbul3.1 km
- 6Shangri La - Playa del Carmen3.2 km
Straight-line distances.
Sources: Species occurrences: OBIS (CC BY 4.0), GBIF.org