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    The Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Spanish pronunciation: [tewanteˈpek]) is an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico...
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    The Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Spanish: Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec), abbreviated as CIIT, is a trade and...
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    is part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, owned by the Mexican government, that crosses the Isthmus of Tehuantepec between Puerto...
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    the early 16th century. The city is still the center of Zapotec culture in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and is the second largest in the region. The city is...
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    major isthmuses include: Karelian Isthmus in Europe Kra Isthmus in Mainland Southeast Asia Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Middle America Isthmus of Perekop...
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    Panama Canal (category Lists of coordinates)
    floated, including a canal (and/or a railroad) across Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec. That did not develop, either. In 1846, the Mallarino–Bidlack Treaty...
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    Indian raids, and the right of transit in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The treaty provided for a joint commission, made up of a surveyor and commissioner...
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    Tehuantepec is the largest region of the state of Oaxaca, located in southwestern Mexico. It covers the southern part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,...
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    and Cocos Plates. Some geographers include the portion east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec including the Yucatán Peninsula within North America. This portion...
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    Oaxaca (redirect from State of Oaxaca)
    the threat of Aztec expansion. While the Zapotec remained dominant in many parts of the Central Valleys and into the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Mixtec...
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    El Niño–Southern Oscillation (category Natural history of the Americas)
    accelerate through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Tehuantepecers primarily occur during the cold season months for the region in the wake of cold fronts, between...
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    travels through the Chivela Pass in southern Mexico, across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is most common between October and February, with a summer minimum...
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    The Gulf of Tehuantepec (Spanish: Golfo de Tehuantepec) is a large body of water on the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, southeastern Mexico...
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    a grant to build a railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest point across Mexico. Secretary of State Daniel Webster had been pressuring...
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    Central Valley areas of California. There are four basic groups of Zapotec: the istmeños, who live in the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the serranos, who...
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    railway along the Tehuantepec Route was opened in 1907 by Porfirio Díaz the port saw an increase of shipping via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, particularly...
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    side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is surrounded on three sides by the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz. The area of the bay is 6...
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    Zoque people (category Pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico)
    lived throughout Chiapas, and Isthmus of Tehuantepec and parts of the state of Tabasco. They may have been descendants of the Olmec. They had a good social...
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    highlands north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the pink-headed warbler, which is found south of the Isthmus, from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico...
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    Tren Interoceánico (network) (category Railway companies of Mexico)
    The Interoceanic Train of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Spanish: Tren Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec) is a government-owned railway system in Mexico...
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    relief and is almost entirely composed of porous limestone. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest point in Mexico separating...
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    the North-Western Territory, and Greenland in North America, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the Darién Gap in Central America, and...
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  • Mountain jet (category Geography of Central America)
    wind blows from the Gulf of Mexico through Chivela Pass in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec and out over the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the Pacific coast. Chivela...
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    Maya Region (category Geography of Mesoamerica)
    the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, while the southeastern one roughly corresponds to a line running northwards from the mouth of the Lempa River to that of the...
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    The Tehuantepec Territory (Spanish: Territorio de Tehuantepec) was a federal territory of Mexico in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It existed between 1853...
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  • Villa's yellow-eared bat (category Bats of Mexico)
    bat species found in Mexico to the west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is known from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Veracruz. Garbino...
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    Coatzacoalcos River (category Drainage basins of the Gulf of Mexico)
    part of the state of Veracruz; it originates in the Sierra de Niltepec and crosses the state of Oaxaca in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, flowing...
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    Salina Cruz (category Municipalities of Oaxaca)
    day of the holy cross. Salina Cruz is situated near the mouth of the Río Tehuantepec, on the open coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on the Gulf of Tehuantepec...
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    best known as originating from Zapotec peoples of the isthmus of Tehuantepec region of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. There, the Zapotec women bake totopos...
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    held sway in the mountains of Oaxaca and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; the Maya in the Yucatán (and into neighboring areas of contemporary Central America);...
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