Search results for "Yucatán Peninsula" - New World Encyclopedia

Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bound to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to the east ...

years. He worked extensively in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where he uncovered ... published his Incidents of Travel in Yucatán, the Caste War broke out and ...

think that the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico was created ... was identified at Chicxulub in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. ...

of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and the northernmost tip ... as a continuation of the Caribbean Current-Yucatán Current-Loop Current system ...

in a 50,000 square mile range comprised of the Yucatán Peninsula (which includes the states of Quintana Roo, Campeche, and Yucatán), \parts of southern Tabasco ...

located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, present-day Mexico. Chichen Itza was a major regional center in the northern Maya lowlands from ...

that created the Chicxulub Crater on the Yucatán Peninsula. Approximately 50 percent of all genera became extinct, including all of the non-avian dinosaurs. ...

tens of thousands of Yaqui from Sonora to the Yucatán peninsula, where they were sold as slaves and worked on plantations; many of these slaves died from the ...

to war, and the Spanish governor-general of Yucatán sent a fleet of 32 ships to ... fleeing from the Caste War of the Yucatan Peninsula in 1847–1848. They founded ...

from Cancun on the northeast tip of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico through to offshore Guatemala, making it the second largest coral reef system in the ...

Córdoba to sail west and explore the Yucatán peninsula. Córdoba reached the ... ===Cortés lands on the Yucatán Peninsula=== After leaving Cozumel, Cortés ...

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begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about ... species, apparently introduced from the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it had ...

Father le Clercq, a Roman Catholic missionary on the Gaspé Peninsula, noted in 1691 that he had seen some Mí'kmaq children writing with charcoal ...

Isthmus of Tehuantepec including the Yucatán Peninsula lie within the region ... of both coastal plains as well as the Yucatán Peninsula), have a yearly median ...

Central America, landing on the coast of Yucatán in search of slaves. ... during the Reconquista. As in the Iberian Peninsula, the inhabitants of Hispaniola ...

the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; the Maya in the Yucatán (and into neighboring areas ... and Oaxaca and in the interior of the Yucatán peninsula the majority of the population ...

The Chicxulub Crater at the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula, the impact of which ... wide bolide hit in the vicinity of the Yucatán Peninsula, creating the 170 km ...

located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, present-day Mexico. A dominant feature of the site is the Temple of Kukulcan (the Maya name for ...

miles), from Isla Contoy at the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula down to the Bay Islands of Honduras * The New Caledonia Barrier Reef - second longest double ...