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Wildfires continue without respite and kept growing, and currently 37 are active, although there have been advances in control and clearance in both the North and the South Zone of the State.

­­MEXICO CITY, APRIL 21 -- Thanks to the diversity of natural attractions, beaches, and culture, tourism in Quintana Roo has been sustained in the first quarter of 2009. It has increased eight percent despite the global crisis, said Governor Félix Arturo Gonzalez Canto, calling attention to the Third Edition of the Xcaret Travesia Sagrada Maya-Cozumel, which will take place from May 23 to 21.

He noted that foreign tourism accounts for 80% of visitors who arrive daily to Quintana Roo, and its growth continues on par with the 80 thousand hotel rooms that are offered today in the state. The promotion of different destinations and now the rescue of Mayan traditions have undoubtedly attracted more visitors.

­­The Directorate of Revenue of the City Council initiated the inspection of vacant lots in the city, 35 of which have been seized. Over 835 are in the process of execution, after a series of warnings and invitations to their owners to fulfill their obligation to clean them, informed the head of the Legal Department Hacendaria Hector Rodrigo Lopez Sansores.

The State Committe to Fight Forest Fires reported a total of 26 active fires and 46 extinquished , with a little more than seven thousand hectares of medium forest, bushes and mangrove involved. At the session held at the facilities of C-4 of Cancun, which was attended by secretary of Agricultural Development, Rural and Indigenous (Sedari), Victor Sanchez and municipal presidents of Lázaro Cárdenas, Clementino Cupul Angulo, and of Isla Mujeres, Alicia Ricalde Magaña. They agreed to team up for providing equipment for the fire fighting in those areas, where it has been indicated four thousand five hundred hectáreas are involved.